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ya'll

/jʌl/UK/jɔːl/

ya'll is the pronunciation spelling of you'll.

ya'll is the alternative spelling of y'all.

Meaning of you'll

Contraction

you'll

  1. (contraction) you will
  2. (contraction) you shall

Meaning of y'all

Pronoun

y'all (second-person plural nominative or objective, possessive determiner y'all's, possessive pronoun y'all's, reflexive y'allselves)

  1. (Appalachia, Caribbean, Singapore, Southern US, informal, nominative) You (plural).
    • [...] and this y'all know is true, [...]1631, William Lisle, The Faire Æthiopian
  2. (Southern US, nominative, objective, plural, second-person, African-American Vernacular) Everyone; everybody.
    • Hey y'all!
  3. (Southern US, nominative, objective, plural, rare, second-person) You (singular).
    • I made this for both y'all and your wife to enjoy.

See all 6 meanings of y'all

Origin of ya'll

Contraction of ya + will. By surface analysis, ya (“you”) + 'll.

Contraction of you all or ya all, with spelling perhaps influenced by you'll.

Words that rhyme with ya'll

4 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about ya'll

What is ya'll the pronunciation spelling of?
Ya'll is the pronunciation spelling of you'll.
How do you pronounce ya'll?
Ya'll is pronounced /jʌl/.

Words near ya'll in the dictionary

  1. ya boo sucks
  2. ya boy
  3. ya girl
  4. ya'
  5. Ya'an
  6. ya'll
  7. Ya-an
  8. ya-boo
  9. Ya-lu
  10. Ya-Sin
  11. yaa

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ya'll (page history and authors); you'll (page history and authors); y'all (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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