whisky vs your, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#11,569
“whisky” frequency rank: #3,411
“your” frequency rank: 14980
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	whisky	your
Definition	Whisky	dein, Ihr

Letter map: whisky vs your

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

6 ch

whisky

4 ch

your

Part-of-speech tell for whisky / your

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: whisky is anoun and yourapronoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 14980, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

whisky is recorded at frequency rank #11,569, 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 14980, this pair ranks #1,947,335 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of whisky vs your

Shared letters: y. Private to "whisky": hiksw. Private to "your": oru.

"whisky" · 6 letters · shape CCVCCV · "your" · 4 letters · shape VVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

whisky ← hwisky · whhisky · whiksy · whiskky · whiskyy · whissky · whisyk · whsiky
your ← oyur · yoru · yourr · yuor · yyour

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "whisky" and "your" mean the same thing in a sentence?

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

Which is more common, "whisky" or "your"?

"your" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,411 in our German list, against #11,569 for "whisky". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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Full dictionary entry for "whisky" 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 #1,947,335 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"whisky" and "your" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs whisky". 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 #1,947,335 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.