yrs
"yrs" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“yrs” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,675) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,675
- frequency rank, English
- 366
- “Y” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abbreviation of yours (when signing a letter).
Corpus desk
Index EN-yrs · yrs · English
yrs · rank #14,675 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,675
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 366
- PHOTO-FINISH wrestler
Nearest frequency peer: wrestler (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “yrs”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- weir
weir
85,331 corpus weight
- wonderland
wonderland
85,328 corpus weight
- wrestler
wrestler
85,327 corpus weight
- yrs
yrs
85,326 corpus weight
- Zimmerman
Zimmerman
85,325 corpus weight
- zoning
zoning
85,324 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “yrs” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yrs |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,675 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “yrs” sits in English frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for yrs is neighbouring look-alikes ("yu", "yt", …), not just typos; it is apronoun. Frequency #14,675 among 366 “Y” headwords. Gloss: "Abbreviation of yours (when signing a letter).".
No misspelling variants are generated for yrs in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "yu", "yt", "Ys", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is yrs, spelled Y-R-S.
Definition
- 1Abbreviation of yours (when signing a letter).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how yrs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
God bless you, My dear Jemima with best love to J M and remembrances to all your party Ever Yrs affly J H N
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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- "yrs" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "yu". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #14,675 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.