English homophones
you're/your
2 "you're, your" spellings share pronunciation /jɔː(ɹ)/; meaning alone separates them. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Meaning separates the spellings
you're, your are held together only by pronunciation /jɔː(ɹ)/. With no grammar or frequency gap large enough to tip the choice, read each definition before you commit a spelling.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "you" then splits - "you're" (6 letters) vs "your" (4).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across you're, your: oruy. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
you're
5 letters · 4 vowels · shape VVVCV
Inventory eoruy · private e
your
4 letters · 3 vowels · shape VVVC
Inventory oruy · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "you're" when you mean: You are.
- Write "your" when you mean: Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- your ← oyur · yoru · yourr · yuor · yyour
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (you're, your). Here's where to go from here.
- "your" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #31 in English). Full entry
- Among English homophone groups, a cluster of 2 spellings ranks #133 by size (1,007 groups in this vintage). Corpus statistics
- Explore a nearby 2-spelling cluster: Yates · Yeats. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "you're, your" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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