veravsyourTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#8,302
“vera” frequency rank
#3,411
“your” frequency rank
11713
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature vera your
Definition wahr, regelrecht dein, Ihr

Letter map: vera vs your

Shared letters muted; letters that set vera and your apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. vera (CVCV) and your (VVVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

4 ch
vera
4 ch
your

Role in the sentence - vera and your

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: vera is anadjective and yourapronoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 4 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11713, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

vera is recorded at frequency rank #8,302, classified as anadj, 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 11713, this pair ranks #1,968,339 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of vera vs your

Shared letters: r. Private to "vera": aev. Private to "your": ouy.

"vera" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "your" · 4 letters · shape VVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • veraevra · vear · verra · vrea · vvera
  • youroyur · yoru · yourr · yuor · yyour

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "vera" and "your" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "vera" is an adjective and "your" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "vera" 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 #8,302 for "vera". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "vera" 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 #1,968,339 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "vera" and "your" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs vera". 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 #1,968,339 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