Ours in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Ours

You can make 13 words from 'ours' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 4 letters words from 'ours'
• 3 letters words from 'ours'
• 2 letters words from 'ours'

4 letters words from 'ours'

OURS 4

SOUR 4

3 letters words from 'ours'

ORS 3	OUR 3
OUS 3	SOU 3
SUR 3

2 letters words from 'ours'

OR 2	OS 2
OU 2	SO 2
UR 2	US 2

Definitions and meaning of ours

ours

Etymology

From Middle English oures, attested since the 1300s. Equivalent to our +‎ -s (compare -'s); formed by analogy to his. Displaced ourn (from Middle English ouren) in standard speech.

Pronunciation

• (General American), IPA^(key): /ˈaʊɚz/, /ɑɹz/
• (Received Pronunciation), IPA^(key): /ˈaʊəz/, /ɑːz/
• Rhymes: -aʊə(ɹ)z, -ɑː(ɹ)z
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)z

Pronoun

ours

1. That which belongs to us; the possessive case of we, used without a following noun.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Ruso, sour

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French

Etymology

From Middle French ours, from Old French urs, from Latin ursus, from Proto-Italic *orssos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos (“bear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uʁs/

Noun

ours m (plural ours, feminine ourse)

1. bear (animal)
2. masthead (list of a newspaper's main staff)

Derived terms

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: ous
• Louisiana Creole French: lours, lous
• Mauritian Creole: lurs
• Seychellois Creole: lours

Further reading

• “ours” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Middle English

Pronoun

ours

1. Alternative form of oures

References

• “oures, (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 11 May 2018.

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French urs, from Latin ursus.

Noun

ours m (plural ours, feminine singular ourse, feminine plural ourses)

1. bear (mammal)

Descendants

• French: ours

Source: wiktionary.org

• belonging to us.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)

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