yours
\jɔɹz\
The verdict
“yours” is uncommon French (frequency #54,344 among 198 “Y” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,344
- frequency rank, French
- 198
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Le tien, la tienne, les tiens, les tiennes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-yours · yours · French
yours · rank #54,344 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,344
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH yup
Nearest frequency peer: yup (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « yours »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Yarmouk
Yarmouk
45,661 corpus weight
- yougoslaves
yougoslaves
45,659 corpus weight
- yours
yours
45,657 corpus weight
- yup
yup
45,656 corpus weight
- éblouis
éblouis
45,655 corpus weight
- échangeait
échangeait
45,654 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « yours » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yours |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | \jɔɹz\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,344 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « yours » en français
Rare enough to double-check
yours is uncommon French at frequency #54,344 among 198 “Y” headwords, classed as apronoun, transcribed \jɔɹz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for yours in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is yours, spelled Y-O-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Le tien, la tienne, les tiens, les tiennes.
- 2Le vôtre, la vôtre, les vôtres.
- 3Cordialement, amicalement.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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