you all
"you-all" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“you all” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a pronoun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - All of you; plural form of you, including everyone being addressed.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | you all |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “you all” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for you all is 7 letters long, classified as a pronoun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for you all in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is you all, spelled Y-O-U- -A-L-L.
Definition
- 1All of you; plural form of you, including everyone being addressed.
- 2You (with singular or plural referent); y'all.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “you all”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is Y-O-U- -A-L-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.