Which to use
“you's” is a contraction and “youth” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #41,483
- “you's” frequency rank
- #1,850
- “youth” frequency rank
- 43333
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | you's | youth |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Contraction of you + is. | The quality or state of being young. |
Letter map: you's vs youth
Shared letters muted; letters that set you's and youth apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. you's runs 4 letters (VVVC) against youth's 5 (VVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Part-of-speech tell for you's / youth
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: you's is acontraction and youthanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 43333, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
you's is recorded at frequency rank #41,483, classified as acontraction. youth is at rank #1,850, tagged as anoun, pronounced /juːθ/.
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 43333, this pair ranks #240,991 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of you's vs youth
Shared letters: ouy. Private to "you's": s. Private to "youth": ht.
"you's" · 4 letters · shape VVVC · "youth" · 5 letters · shape VVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- youth ← oyuth · yotuh · youht · youthh · youtth · yuoth · yyouth
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
Pair "you's" vs "youth" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.
- Full dictionary entry for "you's" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "youth" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #240,991 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "you's" and "youth" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "you's 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 #240,991 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.