you all
The verdict
“you all” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a pronoun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Vous du pluriel, distingué du singulier you.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | you all |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | \juɑʷ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “you all” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for you all is 7 letters long, classified as a pronoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \juɑʷ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Vous du pluriel, distingué du singulier you.".
No misspelling variants are generated for you all in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is you all, spelled Y-O-U- -A-L-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vous du pluriel, distingué du singulier you.
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Using “you all”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is Y-O-U- -A-L-L — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \juɑʷ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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