urs vs uses, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“urs” and “uses” are a confusable English pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#34,739
“urs” frequency rank: #1,413
“uses” frequency rank: 36152
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	urs	uses
Definition	The anniversary of the death of a Sufi saint, celebrated with music and ritual.	plural of use

Letter map: urs vs uses

Shared letters muted; letters that set urs and uses apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

3 ch

urs

4 ch

uses

Pair insight - urs / uses

urs and uses are indexed as a confusable English pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36152, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

urs is recorded at frequency rank #34,739, classified as anoun. uses is at rank #1,413, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈjuː.sɪz/.

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 36152, this pair ranks #305,717 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of urs vs uses

Shared letters: su. Private to "urs": r. Private to "uses": e.

"urs" · 3 letters · shape VCC · "uses" · 4 letters · shape VCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

uses ← sues · uess · usess · usse · usses

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "urs" for "uses" ever safe?

No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.

In ordinary English text, does "urs" or "uses" show up more?

"uses" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,413 in our English list, against #34,739 for "urs". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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Full dictionary entry for "urs" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "uses" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #305,717 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"urs" and "uses" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "UAS vs urs". 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 #305,717 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.