Contraction for 'are' with nouns
Solution 1:
Is this correct?
the candys 're in the box
It's not usually considered correct but it is sometimes encountered.
the womens're at the car
That's wrong for other reasons.
I know 'you're', 'we're', 'they're' are valid usages, but can it be used for nouns?
No, not usually.
Solution 2:
Here are the top 21 ’re forms in the Corpus of Contemporary American English:
TOT SPOKEN FICTION MAGAZINE NEWSPAPER ACADEMIC
1 YOU'RE 244694 108878 65509 44733 22486 3088
2 WE'RE 195472 117655 26890 19939 28368 2620
3 THEY'RE 169989 94821 22991 23922 25776 2479
4 WHAT'RE 777 12 721 24 17 3
5 THERE'RE 442 169 211 23 33 6
6 HOW'RE 393 135 234 13 9 2
7 WHO'RE 189 18 130 29 11 1
8 WHERE'RE 142 2 129 5 4 2
9 WHY'RE 66 4 60 2
10 YE'RE 56 51 4 1
11 THAT'RE 33 7 20 3 3
12 'RE 24 22 2
13 YOUR'RE 19 3 7 6 1 2
14 HERE'RE 18 3 9 4 1 1
15 IFYOU'RE 15 14 1
16 PEOPLE'RE 15 14 1
17 HELL'RE 14 14
18 GUYS'RE 11 10 1
19 OWE'RE 10 1 9
20 THINGS'RE 10 10
21 THOSE'RE 10 10
As you can see, forms other than you’re, we’re, and they’re are quite rare in comparison. For the most part, they occur primarily in fiction, although there’re and how’re occur with some frequency in spoken English.
Of course, the two examples given in the original question are not correct because the plural of candy is candies not candys and the plural of woman is women not womens. There were no examples of candies’re in COCA, but there was one example of women’re.
Solution 3:
No, it's not correct. You'd have to say:
the candies are in the box, the women are at the car
Solution 4:
We would write The candies are in the box
. If a native English speaker says that sentence out loud, they may pronounce it so it sounds more like The candies're in the box
. (But we would never write it that way.)
Another example:
We would write The cars are in the parking lot
.
If a native English speaker says it out loud, it might end up sounding like The cars're in the box
(but we would never write it that way).