you: meaning and words from its letters
3 letters · 6 letter points · starts with Y · ends with U
Meaning of you
pron
- nominative, objective, plural, second-person, singular
The people spoken, or written to, as an object.
Example: Both of you should get ready now.
- US, colloquial, nominative, objective, plural, pronoun, reflexive, second-person, singular
(To) yourselves, (to) yourself.
- nominative, objective, plural, second-person, singular
The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.)
- nominative, objective, plural, pronoun, second-person, singular, subjective
The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.)
Example: You are all supposed to do as I tell you.
Listed forms: your, yours, yourself, yourselves, ye, ya, yah, yer.
Source: Wiktionary — you.
det
The individual or group spoken or written to.
Example: Have you gentlemen come to see the lady who fell backwards off a bus?
Used before epithets, describing the person being addressed, for emphasis.
Example: You idiot!
- nonstandard
Your.
Listed forms: ye, ya, yah, yer, yeh, yo, yu, yuh.
Source: Wiktionary — you.
verb
- transitive
To address (a person) using the pronoun you (in the past, especially to use you rather than thou, when you was considered more formal).
Listed forms: yous, youing, youed, ye, ya, yah, yer.
Source: Wiktionary — you.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is you in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of you
Y(4) + O(1) + U(1) = 6 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of you
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from you
3 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in you. Showing up to 24, longest first.