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p'raps

p'raps is the contraction of perhaps.

Meaning of perhaps

Adverb

perhaps (not comparable)

  1. Possibly.
    • Perhaps John will come over for dinner.
  2. (dated) By chance.
    • […] will live until he dies perhaps, and then lie down in clover.c. 1850, “Landlord, Fill the Flowing Bowl”

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Forms of p'raps

alternative formp'r'aps
alternative formpraps

Questions about p'raps

What is p'raps the contraction of?
P'raps is the contraction of perhaps.

Words near p'raps in the dictionary

  1. p'int
  2. p'ints
  3. p'lice
  4. P'que
  5. p'r'aps
  6. p'raps
  7. p'rhaps
  8. p's
  9. p'shat
  10. P'ship
  11. p'simmon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: p'raps (page history and authors); perhaps (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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