Morrisvsyou'reWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: Morris is a name, you're is an abbrev, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Morris” is a name and “you're” is an abbrev - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#12,761
“Morris” frequency rank
#15,006
“you're” frequency rank
27767
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Morris you're
Definition englischer männlicher Vorname „you are, 2. Person Singular:“ du bist

Letter map: Morris vs you're

Shared letters muted; letters that set Morris and you're apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. Morris runs 6 letters (CVCCVC) against you're's 5 (VVVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
Morris
6 ch
you're

Part-of-speech tell for Morris / you're

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Morris is aname and you'reanabbrev. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 5 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27767, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Morris is recorded at frequency rank #12,761, classified as aname, pronounced […]. you're is at rank #15,006, tagged as anabbrev, pronounced […].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 27767, this pair ranks #1,796,237 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of Morris vs you're

Shared letters: or. Private to "Morris": ims. Private to "you're": euy.

"Morris" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC  ·  "you're" · 5 letters · shape VVVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Morrismmorris · morirs · moris · morriss · morrsi · mroris · omrris

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Morris" for "you're" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Morris" is a name and "you're" an abbrev, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "Morris" or "you're" show up more?
"Morris" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #12,761 in our German list, against #15,006 for "you're". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "Morris" and "you're". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Morris" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "you're" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,796,237 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Morris" and "you're" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs you're". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #1,796,237 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list