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p'rhaps

/pɹæps/

p'rhaps 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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Questions about p'rhaps

What is p'rhaps the contraction of?
P'rhaps is the contraction of perhaps.
How do you pronounce p'rhaps?
P'rhaps is pronounced /pɹæps/.

Words near p'rhaps in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: p'rhaps (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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