you'r
"you-r" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“you'r” is uncommon English (frequency #67,975 among 366 “Y” headwords), classed as a contraction. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,975
- frequency rank, English
- 366
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete form of you're.
Corpus desk
Index EN-you-r · you'r · English
you'r · rank #67,975 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,975
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 366
- PHOTO-FINISH Yuvraj
Nearest frequency peer: Yuvraj (+2 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “you'r”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- writeup
writeup
32,033 corpus weight
- xiong
xiong
32,032 corpus weight
- Yim
Yim
32,029 corpus weight
- you'r
you'r
32,026 corpus weight
- Yuvraj
Yuvraj
32,024 corpus weight
- Zhuang
Zhuang
32,022 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “you'r” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | you'r |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Contraction |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,975 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “you'r” in English
Rare enough to double-check
you'r is uncommon English at frequency #67,975 among 366 “Y” headwords, classed as acontraction. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Obsolete form of you're.".
you'r doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is you'r, spelled Y-O-U-'-R.
Definition
- 1Obsolete form of you're.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how you'r appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I cannot viſit Hide-Park every day, / And with a Hackney court my time away; / I cannot ſpaniolize it week by week, / Or wait a moneth to kiſſe your hand or cheek; / If when you’r lov’d, you cannot love again, / Why, doe but ſay ſo, I am out of pain.
Offence? As I’m a Perſon, I’m aſhamed of you⸺Fogh! how you ſtink of Wine! Dee think my Niece will ever endure ſuch a Borachio! you’r an abſolute Borachio.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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