Word.ws English Dictionary

where's

/wɛə(ɹ)z/

where's is the contraction of where.

Meaning of where

Adverb

where (not comparable)

  1. (interrogative) In, at or to what place.
    • Where are you?
    Synonyms:
    whither
  2. In what situation.
    • Where would we be without our parents?
  3. In, at or to the place (that) or a place (that).
    • Stay where you are.
  4. In, at or to any place (that); wherever; anywhere.
    • Please sit where you like.
  5. (relative) In, at or to which.
    • This is the place where we first met.
  6. (fused relative) The place in, at or to which.
    • He lives within five miles of where he was born.

See all 12 meanings of where

Phrases with where's

Words that rhyme with where's

26 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about where's

What is where's the contraction of?
Where's is the contraction of where.
How do you pronounce where's?
Where's is pronounced /wɛə(ɹ)z/.

Words near where's in the dictionary

  1. where'd
  2. where'er
  3. where'm
  4. where'n
  5. where're
  6. where's
  7. where's the beef
  8. where's the cameras
  9. where's the fire
  10. where's the lie
  11. where's the lie tho

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: where's (page history and authors); where (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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: en-us-where's.ogg.

Cite this entry: “where's.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/where%27s. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.