yourvsyuhConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#31
“your” frequency rank
#49,157
“yuh” frequency rank
49188
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature your yuh
Definition Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner). you

Where the eye mixes your and yuh

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence. your runs 4 letters (VVVC) against yuh's 3 (VVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
your
3 ch
yuh

Visual trap between your and yuh

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: your is /jɔː(ɹ)/ while yuh is /ˈjʌ/. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (determiner vs pronoun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49188, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

your is recorded at frequency rank #31, classified as adet, pronounced /jɔː(ɹ)/. yuh is at rank #49,157, tagged as apron, pronounced /ˈjʌ/.

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 49188, this pair ranks #185,950 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of your vs yuh

Shared letters: uy. Private to "your": or. Private to "yuh": h.

"your" · 4 letters · shape VVVC  ·  "yuh" · 3 letters · shape VVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • your ← oyur · yoru · yourr · yuor · yyour

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "your" and "yuh" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "your" is a determiner and "yuh" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "your" vs "yuh" - which ranks higher?
"your" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #31 in our English list, against #49,157 for "yuh". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "your" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "yuh" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #185,950 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "your" and "yuh" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Yau vs yuh". 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 #185,950 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list