you are welcome
"you-are-welcome" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“you are welcome” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Alternative form of you're welcome.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | you are welcome |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “you are welcome” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for you are welcome is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase. 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.
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.
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 are welcome”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is Y-O-U- -A-R-E- -W-E-L-C-O-M-E - 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.