watersvsyourConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#36,115
“waters” frequency rank
#3,411
“your” frequency rank
39526
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature waters your
Definition Plural des Substantives water dein, Ihr

Letter map: waters vs your

Shared letters muted; letters that set waters and your apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

6 ch
waters
4 ch
your

Part-of-speech tell for waters / your

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: waters is anunknown and yourapronoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 39526, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

waters is recorded at frequency rank #36,115, classified as anunknown, 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 39526, this pair ranks #1,534,349 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of waters vs your

Shared letters: r. Private to "waters": aestw. Private to "your": ouy.

"waters" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC  ·  "your" · 4 letters · shape VVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • watersawters · waetrs · waterrs · waterss · watesr · watres · watters · wtaers
  • youroyur · yoru · yourr · yuor · yyour

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "waters" and "your" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "waters" is an unknown and "your" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "waters" or "your" show up more?
"your" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,411 in our German list, against #36,115 for "waters". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "waters" 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 #1,534,349 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "waters" and "your" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs waters". 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 #1,534,349 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