# you vs yours

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### you
*pronoun · IPA /ju/ · frequency rank #11*
The people spoken, or written to, as an object.

### yours
*pronoun · IPA /jɔː(ɹ)z/ · frequency rank #1,849*
That or those belonging to you; the possessive second-person singular pronoun used without a following noun.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/you-vs-yours