Which to use
“within” is a preposition and “your” is a pronoun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #29,872
- “within” frequency rank
- #3,411
- “your” frequency rank
- 33283
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | within | your |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | innerhalb, in | dein, Ihr |
Letter map: within vs your
Shared letters muted; letters that set within and your apart highlighted. No shared letter run.
Part-of-speech tell for within / your
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: within is apreposition and yourapronoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 33283, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
within is recorded at frequency rank #29,872, classified as aprep, 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 33283, this pair ranks #1,689,343 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of within vs your
Shared letters: none. Private to "within": hintw. Private to "your": oruy.
"within" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC · "your" · 4 letters · shape VVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "within" and "your" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "within" or "your"?
Useful next steps
Pair "within" vs "your" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.
- Full dictionary entry for "within" 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 #1,689,343 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "within" and "your" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs within". 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 #1,689,343 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.