yur
"yur" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“yur” is uncommon English (frequency #94,464 among 2,763 “Y” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,464
- frequency rank, English
- 2,763
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pronunciation spelling of your.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yur |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #94,464 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “yur” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
yur is uncommon English at frequency #94,464 among 2,763 “Y” headwords, classed as apronoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pronunciation spelling of your.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for yur, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is yur, spelled Y-U-R.
Definition
- 1Pronunciation spelling of your.
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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Using “yur”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is Y-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.