Swift vs your, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“Swift” is a name and “your” is a pronoun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#17,737
“Swift” frequency rank: #3,411
“your” frequency rank: 21148
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	Swift	your
Definition	englischer Familienname	dein, Ihr

Letter map: Swift vs your

Shared letters muted; letters that set Swift and your apart highlighted. No shared letter run.

5 ch

Swift

4 ch

your

Grammar separator: Swift vs your

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Swift is aname and yourapronoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 21148, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Swift is recorded at frequency rank #17,737, classified as aname, pronounced […]. your is at rank #3,411, tagged as apron, pronounced […].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 21148, this pair ranks #1,889,612 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of Swift vs your

Shared letters: none. Private to "Swift": fistw. Private to "your": oruy.

"Swift" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC · "your" · 4 letters · shape VVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

Swift ← siwft · sswift · swfit · swifft · swiftt · switf · swwift · wsift
your ← oyur · yoru · yourr · yuor · yyour

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Swift" for "your" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Swift" is a name and "your" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "Swift" vs "your" - which ranks higher?

"your" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,411 in our German list, against #17,737 for "Swift". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "Swift" vs "your" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

Full dictionary entry for "Swift" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "your" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,889,612 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"Swift" and "your" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs Swift". Nearby pair
Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #1,889,612 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.