you've
/juv/contraction
you've is spelled Y-O-U-V-E. The wrong spelling people search most is youve: about 150 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. You've is a contraction meaning “Contraction of you + have”.
How many letters and syllables are in you've?
| Letters | 5: Y-O-U-V-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 135 times per million words; the 770th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, youve, about 150 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell you've?
You've is spelled Y-O-U-V-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for you've 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've?
You've appears 135 times per million words in written English, the 770th 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've?
- UK /juːv/
- /iːv/
- US /juv/
You've 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've.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with you've?
6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as you've from its last stressed vowel (/uv/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of you've
- yo've
- u've informal
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does you've mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
contraction
- 1
Contraction of you + have.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).