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yours

UK /jɔː(ɹ)z/pronoun

yours is spelled Y-O-U-R-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 56 times per million words in written English, the 1,822nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “your vs yours” about 20 times a month (Bing, United States). As a pronoun, yours means “That or those belonging to you; the possessive second-person singular pronoun used without a following noun” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in yours?

Letters5: Y-O-U-R-S
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing56 times per million words; the 1,822nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Sounds like
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is yours?

Yours appears 56 times per million words in written English, the 1,822nd 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 yours?

  • UK /jɔː(ɹ)z/
  • UK /jʊəz/
  • UK /jəz/

Yours 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-us-yours.ogg, En-us-yours_(alternate_pronunciation).oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with yours

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

your vs yours20 B

Sounds like: yaws (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

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

What rhymes with yours?

4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as yours from its last stressed vowel (/ɔz/, British pronunciation):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of yours

  • your's

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

What does yours mean?

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

pronoun

  1. 1

    That or those belonging to you; the possessive second-person singular pronoun used without a following noun.

    If this edit is mine, the other must be yours.

  2. 2

    informalYour house or home.

    Let's go over to yours.

  3. 3

    Written at the end of a letter, before the signature.

    Yours sincerely,  Yours faithfully,  Yours,  Sincerely yours,

pronoun

as Yours
  1. 1

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

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

How do you abbreviate yours?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of yours: yrs.

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

Yours in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchle tien, la tienne, les tiens, les tiennes (possessive pronoun, singular), le vôtre, la vôtre (possessive pronoun, plural)
Germandeiner (possessive pronoun, singular), Ihres (possessive pronoun, plural)
Portuguese(o) teu, (o) seu (possessive pronoun, singular), (o) vosso (possessive pronoun, plural)
Spanishtuyo, suyo (possessive pronoun, singular), vuestro, voso (disused) (possessive pronoun, plural)

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 yours come from?

From Middle English youres, ȝoures, attested since the 1300s. Equivalent to your + -s (compare -'s); formed by analogy to his. Displaced yourn in standard speech.

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

What to look up after yours