You're or your?
you're is a contraction meaning “Contraction of you + are”; your is a determiner meaning “Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner)”. They sound the same (/jɔː(ɹ)/). In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) your is about 4.6 times as common as you're.
What is the difference between you're and your?
| you're | your | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | contraction | determiner, pronoun |
| Meaning | Contraction of you + are | Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner) Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners) |
| Example | You’re smarter than I am! | Let’s meet tomorrow at your convenience |
| Forms | yo're | yo, yo', yoh, yur |
| Pronunciation | /jɔː(ɹ)/ /jʊə(ɹ)/ /juːə(ɹ)/ | /jɔː(ɹ)/ /jʊə(ɹ)/ /jə(ɹ)/ |
| In writing | 741 times per million words | 3,388 times per million words |
Sources: you're and your in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of you're and your
you're
- 1
Contraction of you + are
You’re smarter than I am!
your
- 1
Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner)
Let’s meet tomorrow at your convenience
- 2
Honorific alternative letter-case form of your, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context
Your Honor
- 3
Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners)
- 4
A determiner that conveys familiarity and mutual knowledge of the modified noun
Not your average Tom, Dick and Harry
- 5
IrelandThat; the specified (usually used with a human referent)
Your man just bought a new car
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, you're or your?
you're appears 741 times per million words; your 3,388 times per million words.
you're 741 times per million wordsyour 3,388 times per million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search you're vs your?
“you're vs your” is searched about 70 times a month on Bing (Google reports it together with close variants, so it has no figure of its own) in the United States.
Sources: Google Ads keyword data through DataForSEO and Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, the average month from September 2025 to August 2026.