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wh-words

wh-words is the plural of wh-word.

Meaning of wh-word

Noun

wh-word (plural wh-words)

  1. Any English word that is interrogative, typically beginning with the letters wh; a question word.
  2. (broadly) Any interrogative word from any language.

Questions about wh-words

What is wh-words the plural of?
Wh-words is the plural of wh-word.

Words near wh-words in the dictionary

  1. wh-movement
  2. wh-movements
  3. wh-question
  4. wh-questions
  5. wh-word
  6. wh-words
  7. wh@re
  8. wh@res
  9. wha
  10. wha gwan
  11. wha's

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wh-words (page history and authors); wh-word (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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