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your

/jɔː(ɹ)/determiner

your is spelled Y-O-U-R: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 3,388 times per million words in written English, the 32nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “you're vs your” about 70 times a month (Bing, United States). As a determiner, your means “Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in your?

Letters4: Y-O-U-R
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing3,388 times per million words; the 32nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Sounds like

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).

How common is your?

Your appears 3,388 times per million words in written English, the 32nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce your?

  • /jɔː(ɹ)/
  • /jʊə(ɹ)/
  • /jə(ɹ)/

Your has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-your.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Nattes_à_chat-your.wav, En-us-your.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with your

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

you're vs your70 B
your vs yours20 B
yer vs your0 B

Sounds like: yaw, yore, you're (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Also written: yer.

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of your

  • ur informal
  • ya informal
  • yer informal
  • yr informal
  • yo
  • yo'
  • yoh
  • yur

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does your mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

determiner

  1. 1

    Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).

    Let’s meet tomorrow at your convenience.

  2. 2

    Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners).

  3. 3

    A determiner that conveys familiarity and mutual knowledge of the modified noun.

    Not your average Tom, Dick and Harry.

  4. 4

    IrelandThat; the specified (usually used with a human referent)

    Your man just bought a new car.

pronoun

as Your
  1. 1

    Honorific alternative letter-case form of your, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.

    Your Honor

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate your?

Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of your: ur, yr.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Your in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchton m ta f tes, votre m or f vos (belonging to you (singular; one owner)), votre, vos (belonging to you (plural; more owners))
Germandein, Ihr (belonging to you (singular; one owner)), euer (belonging to you (plural; more owners))
Portugueseteu, tua, seu, sua (belonging to you (singular; one owner)), vosso, vossa (belonging to you (plural; more owners))
Spanishtu, su (belonging to you (singular; one owner)), vuestro, vuestra, voso (disused) (belonging to you (plural; more owners))

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does your come from?

From Middle English your, youre, ȝour, ȝoure, from Old English ēower, īower (“your”, plural), from Proto-West Germanic *iuwar, from Proto-Germanic *izweraz. Cognate with Saterland Frisian jou (“your”), Dutch jouw (“your”), German Low German jo, jos (“your”), German euer (“your”, plural), Danish jeres (“your”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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