you're
/jɔː(ɹ)/contraction
you're is spelled Y-O-U-R-E. The wrong spelling people search most is youre: about 780 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. You're is a contraction meaning “Contraction of you + are”.
How many letters and syllables are in you're?
| Letters | 5: Y-O-U-R-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 741 times per million words; the 142nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, youre, about 780 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like |
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).
How do you spell you're?
You're is spelled Y-O-U-R-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for you're in either form.
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). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is you're?
You're appears 741 times per million words in written English, the 142nd 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 you're?
- /jɔː(ɹ)/
- /jʊə(ɹ)/
- /juːə(ɹ)/
You'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-you're.ogg, En-us-you're2.ogg, En-us-your_unstressed.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with you're
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: yore, your (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: yer.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of you're
- ur informal
- u're informal
- ure informal
- ya informal
- yer informal
- yo're
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does you're mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
contraction
- 1
Contraction of you + are.
You’re smarter than I am!
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).