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fwiw

fwiw is the initialism of for what it's worth.

Meaning of for what it's worth

Prepositional phrase

  1. Considering what limited worth this advice, opinion, or suggestion might have for you; used to soften the presentation of unsolicited advice or information that may not be relevant.
    • Take my advice for what it’s worth—don’t marry Garth: marry some old fool.1877, Julian Hawthorne, Garth, page 343
    Synonyms:
    FWIW

Prepositional phrase capitalized: FWIW

  1. (Internet, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of for what it's worth.
    • Supposidly,^([sic]) SVR3 was developed on the 400 line, and ports to the 3B5/15 line are not due out until early next year. FWIW.1986 August 27, Marc A. Ries, “Re: UNIX v.3 Query”, in net.unix (Usenet), retrieved 02 Jul 2016, message-ID <1267@trwrb.UUCP>
    • Anyway, the PD libraries for "strings" and "ndir" were the saving grace, once "job control" was conditionally compiled out. FWIW.1986 November 26, Marc A. Ries, “Re: Berkely Unix ported to NCR Tower32”, in comp.unix.wizards (Usenet), retrieved 21 Jul 2020, message-ID <1441@trwrb.UUCP>

Questions about fwiw

What is fwiw the initialism of?
Fwiw is the initialism of for what it's worth.
What part of speech is fwiw?
Fwiw is a prepositional phrase.

Words near fwiw in the dictionary

  1. FWI
  2. FWICT
  3. fwiend
  4. fwiends
  5. fwip
  6. fwiw
  7. FWK
  8. fwm
  9. fwoom
  10. fwoomph
  11. fwoosh

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fwiw (page history and authors); FWIW (page history and authors); for what it's worth (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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