uservsyourWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: user is a noun, your is a pronoun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#2,693
“user” frequency rank
#3,411
“your” frequency rank
6104
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature user your
Definition Benutzer dein, Ihr

Letter map: user vs your

Shared letters muted; letters that set user and your apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. user (VCVC) and your (VVVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

4 ch
user
4 ch
your

Grammar separator: user vs your

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: user is anoun and yourapronoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 6104, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

user is recorded at frequency rank #2,693, classified as anoun, 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 6104, this pair ranks #1,992,709 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of user vs your

Shared letters: ru. Private to "user": es. Private to "your": oy.

"user" · 4 letters · shape VCVC  ·  "your" · 4 letters · shape VVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • usersuer · uesr · userr · usre · usser
  • youroyur · yoru · yourr · yuor · yyour

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "user" for "your" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "user" is a noun and "your" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "user" or "your"?
"user" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,693 in our German list, against #3,411 for "your". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "user" and "your".

  • Full dictionary entry for "user" 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 #1,992,709 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "user" and "your" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs your". 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 #1,992,709 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list