we're
/wə/contraction
we're is spelled W-E-R-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 251 times per million words in written English, the 387th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “we're vs were” about 1,900 times a month (Google, United States). As a contraction, we're means “Contraction of we + are” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in we're?
| Letters | 4: W-E-R-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 251 times per million words; the 387th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is we're?
We're appears 251 times per million words in written English, the 387th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce we're?
- /wɪə/
- /weː/
- UK /wə/
We're has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-we're.ogg, En-us-were.ogg, En-us-where.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with we're
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with we're?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as we're from its last stressed vowel (/ə/, British pronunciation):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does we're mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
contraction
- 1
Contraction of we + are.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).