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how to

how to is the alternative form of how-to.

Meaning of how-to

Noun

how-to (plural how-tos)

  1. A brief informal description of how to accomplish a specific task.
  2. A book or other guide describing how to accomplish tasks in a certain field.

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Questions about how to

What is how to the alternative form of?
How to is the alternative form of how-to.

Words near how to in the dictionary

  1. how the other half lives
  2. how the sausage gets made
  3. how the sausage is made
  4. how the turntables
  5. how the wind is blowing
  6. how to
  7. how very dare you
  8. how would I know
  9. how you doing
  10. how you get them is how you lose them
  11. how you say

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Adapted from Wiktionary: how to (page history and authors); how-to (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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