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prehaps

prehaps is the alternative form 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 prehaps

What is prehaps the alternative form of?
Prehaps is the alternative form of perhaps.

Words near prehaps in the dictionary

  1. prehallical
  2. prehallux
  3. prehalluxes
  4. prehand
  5. prehandicap
  6. prehaps
  7. prehard
  8. preharden
  9. prehardened
  10. prehardener
  11. prehardeners

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prehaps (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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