yourvsYuiWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#31
“your” frequency rank
#38,698
“Yui” frequency rank
38729
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature your Yui
Definition Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner). A unisex given name from Japanese.

Letter map: your vs Yui

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

4 ch
your
3 ch
Yui

Part-of-speech tell for your / Yui

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: your is adeterminer and Yuianame. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38729, 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)/. Yui is at rank #38,698, tagged as aname.

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 38729, this pair ranks #283,315 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of your vs Yui

Shared letters: uy. Private to "your": or. Private to "Yui": i.

"your" · 4 letters · shape VVVC  ·  "Yui" · 3 letters · shape VVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • youroyur · yoru · yourr · yuor · yyour

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "your" for "Yui" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "your" is a determiner and "Yui" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary English text, does "your" or "Yui" show up more?
"your" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #31 in our English list, against #38,698 for "Yui". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Pair "your" vs "Yui" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "your" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Yui" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #283,315 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "your" and "Yui" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Yau vs Yui". 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 #283,315 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