you are welcome
"you-are-welcome" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“you are welcome” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of you're welcome.
Corpus desk
Index EN-you-are-welcome · you are welcome · English
you are welcome · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Y" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | you are welcome |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “you are welcome” in English
Rare enough to double-check
you are welcome is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for you are welcome in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is you are welcome, spelled Y-O-U- -A-R-E- -W-E-L-C-O-M-E.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of you're welcome.
- 2Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see you, are, welcome.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how you are welcome appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
She reached out and handed me a steaming bowl of porridge. / “Thank you!” / Her eyes smiled back at me. “You are welcome.”
You are welcome, most noble Sorceress, to the land of the Munchkins.
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.