Which to use
“yong” is an adjective and “you” is a pronoun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #16,835
- “yong” frequency rank
- #11
- “you” frequency rank
- 16846
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | yong | you |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Obsolete spelling of young. | The people spoken, or written to, as an object. |
Letter map: yong vs you
Shared letters muted; letters that set yong and you apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. yong runs 4 letters (VVCC) against you's 3 (VVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Part-of-speech tell for yong / you
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: yong is anadjective and youapronoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 16846, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
yong is recorded at frequency rank #16,835, classified as anadj. you is at rank #11, tagged as apron, pronounced /ju/.
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 16846, this pair ranks #455,229 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of yong vs you
Shared letters: oy. Private to "yong": gn. Private to "you": u.
"yong" · 4 letters · shape VVCC · "you" · 3 letters · shape VVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- yong ← oyng · ynog · yogn · yongg · yonng · yyong
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "yong" for "you" ever safe?
Frequency check: "yong" vs "you" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "yong" and "you".
- Full dictionary entry for "yong" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "you" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #455,229 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "yong" and "you" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "yong vs Youngs". 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 #455,229 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.