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what-iffing

what-iffing is the present participle and gerund of what-if.

Meaning of what-if

Verb

what-if (third-person singular simple present what-ifs, present participle what-iffing, simple past and past participle what-iffed)

  1. (informal) To speculate about the consequences of something that could have happened.

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Questions about what-iffing

What is what-iffing the present participle and gerund of?
What-iffing is the present participle and gerund of what-if.

Words near what-iffing in the dictionary

  1. what-do-you-call-its
  2. what-have-you
  3. what-if
  4. what-iffed
  5. what-iffery
  6. what-iffing
  7. what-ifs
  8. what-it's-like-ness
  9. what-it's-likeness
  10. what-like
  11. what-not

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Adapted from Wiktionary: what-iffing (page history and authors); what-if (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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