yur
"yur" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“yur” is uncommon English (frequency #94,464 among 366 “Y” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,464
- frequency rank, English
- 366
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pronunciation spelling of your.
Corpus desk
Index EN-yur · yur · English
yur · rank #94,464 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,464
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 366
- PHOTO-FINISH Zapatista
Nearest frequency peer: Zapatista (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “yur”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- yager
yager
5,543 corpus weight
- yayo
yayo
5,542 corpus weight
- youngish
youngish
5,540 corpus weight
- yur
yur
5,537 corpus weight
- Zapatista
Zapatista
5,536 corpus weight
- zither
zither
5,533 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “yur” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “yur” in English
Rare enough to double-check
yur is uncommon English at frequency #94,464 among 366 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how yur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Then, in a staggering display of empathy for the deceased lacking, this friend segues to the narcissist nub of the matter: "Omg wat if yu get arrested b4 yur bdai."
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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