year vs your, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#13,524
“year” frequency rank: #3,411
“your” frequency rank: 16935
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	year	your
Definition	eine Dauer von 365 Tagen; Jahr	dein, Ihr

Letter map: year vs your

Shared letters muted; letters that set year and your apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch

year

4 ch

your

Part-of-speech tell for year / your

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: year is anoun and yourapronoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 16935, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

year is recorded at frequency rank #13,524, 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 16935, this pair ranks #1,931,799 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of year vs your

Shared letters: ry. Private to "year": ae. Private to "your": ou.

"year" · 4 letters · shape VVVC · "your" · 4 letters · shape VVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

year ← eyar · yaer · yearr · yera · yyear
your ← oyur · yoru · yourr · yuor · yyour

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "year" for "your" ever safe?

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

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

"your" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,411 in our German list, against #13,524 for "year". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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Full dictionary entry for "year" 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 #1,931,799 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"year" and "your" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs year". 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 #1,931,799 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.