youre

Youre is a string that most often appears as a misspelling of you're, the contraction of you are. In standard English, youre is not considered correct for formal writing, where the apostrophe should be used to indicate the omitted letters in the contraction you are.

The term is easily confused with three related words. You're is the contracted form of you are, as in You're going to like this. Your is a possessive determiner, as in Your car is new. Yore is an archaic noun meaning the past or former times. These similar forms can lead to common typos or misreads when writing quickly or typing on devices without easy punctuation input.

Orthography and style guides generally treat youre as an incorrect form in formal contexts. Editors and teachers typically require you to use you're, your, or yore as appropriate to the meaning. In informal writing, social media, and texting, people sometimes omit apostrophes, so you might see youre, but this is still considered nonstandard and potentially distracting to readers.

In digital contexts, some brands, usernames, or domain names may deliberately drop punctuation or choose stylized spellings, including youre, for branding purposes or to fit character limits. When no branding is involved, however, the conventional spellings should be used to avoid ambiguity and maintain readability.