ur

Shortened your online

Ur is informal shorthand for "your" or "you're," common in texting and online communication: ur welcome, ur gonna love this.

The spelling emerged from early text messaging, where brevity mattered.

It remains casual and is rarely used in formal writing.

prefix

original

First or inventive

earliest · archetypal · foundational · ancestral · proto · precursor · origin · root · seminal · primary

Categories
Opposites
formality of register

uryour

Second-person possessive

you're · formal writing · proper English · proper grammar · standard spelling

communication medium/era

urprint journalism

News published on paper

legal document · academic writing · business English

Phrases
Family

urban, urbane, urtext

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Everyday, not technical · Rated G