youse
"youse" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“youse” is uncommon English (frequency #68,776 among 366 “Y” headwords), classed as a determiner. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,776
- frequency rank, English
- 366
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of yous.
Corpus desk
Index EN-youse · youse · English
youse · rank #68,776 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,776
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 366
- PHOTO-FINISH yoni
Nearest frequency peer: yoni (-1 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 “youse”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- xun
xun
31,233 corpus weight
- Yaakov
Yaakov
31,231 corpus weight
- Yahtzee
Yahtzee
31,230 corpus weight
- Yogis
Yogis
31,227 corpus weight
- yoni
yoni
31,226 corpus weight
- youse
youse
31,225 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “youse” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | youse |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Determiner |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “youse” in English
Rare enough to double-check
youse is uncommon English at frequency #68,776 among 366 “Y” headwords, classed as adeterminer. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of yous.".
youse has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 youse, spelled Y-O-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of yous.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how youse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Have youse gentlemen finished talking?
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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