About The Word “Whom”

Everything you wanted to know about the word “whom”, including spelling, parts of speech, “whom” meaning and origins, anagrams, rhyming words, encodings, crossword clues and much more!

How to spell “whom”

Whom is spelled w-h-o-m and has 4 letters.


How to pronounce “whom”

IPA pronunciation: /huːm/

Phonetic pronunciation: hoom


How many vowels and consonants in “whom”

The word “whom” has 3 consonants and 1 vowels.


How many syllables in “whom”?

There is 1 syllable in the word “whom”.


What type of word is “whom”?

The word "whom" can be a pronoun.

Meaning of the word “whom”

'Whom' is an objective pronoun used to refer to a person or persons that are the object of a verb or preposition. It is often used in formal English and in questions to inquire about the individual(s) affected by an action or involved in a situation.

Origin of the word “whom”

The word 'whom' has its origins in Old English, derived from the Old English word 'hwām', which is the dative form of the interrogative pronoun 'hwā'. It is also related to the Old High German 'hwem' and the Latin 'quam', both of which share similar meanings and functions.
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Synonyms for “whom”

Other words for “whom” include who, that, which.

Common misspellings of “whom”

Whum

Similar words to “whom”

Hom, who

Scrambled words derived from “whom”

Hmow, wohm, wmho, owmh, ohmw, mohw, hmwo, mwho, mhwo, hwmo, omwh, womh, homw, mwoh, wmoh, mowh, owhm, hwom, mhow, ohwm

Crossword clues for “whom”

For questioning individual, mix how and um (4).

Fun facts about the word “whom”

The word “whom” has a Scrabble score of 12 and reads mohw in reverse.


Phonetic spelling of “whom”

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The phonetic alphabet, specifically the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), is a system of notation for the sounds of languages created by linguists. Unlike conventional written alphabets, which vary across languages and can have inconsistent mappings of symbols to sounds, the IPA is designed to provide a consistent and universally understood means of transcribing the sounds of any spoken language.

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“whom” spelled in Morse code

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Morse code is a method used in telecommunication to encode text characters as sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs. It was developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail for their new invention, the telegraph, which required a simple way to transmit text messages across long distances.

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ASCII spelling of “whom”

Lowercase word: 119 104 111 109

Uppercase word: 87 72 79 77

ASCII, which stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard used by computers and electronic devices to understand and represent text.

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Binary spelling of “whom”

Lowercase word: 1110111 1101000 1101111 1101101

Uppercase word: 1010111 1001000 1001111 1001101

Binary encoding is a system that computers and digital devices use to represent and process information. It's based on binary numbers, which are composed only of zeros and ones, known as bits.

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Hexadecimal value of “whom”

Lowercase hexadecimal word: 0x77 0x68 0x6F 0x6D

Uppercase hexadecimal word: 0x57 0x48 0x4F 0x4D

Hexadecimal is a number system commonly used in computing as a human-friendly way of representing binary data. Unlike the decimal system, which is base 10 and uses digits from 0 to 9, the hexadecimal system is base 16, using digits from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F to represent the values 10 to 15.

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Decimal spelling of “whom”

Lowercase: 119 104 111 109

Upprcase: 87 72 79 77

The decimal system, also known as base-10, is the numerical system most commonly used by people in everyday life. It's called "base-10" because it uses ten digits: 0 through 9. Each position in a decimal number represents a power of 10.

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Octal value of “whom”

Lowercase: 167 150 157 155

Upprcase: 127 110 117 115

Octal is a base-8 number system used in digital computing. Unlike the decimal system which uses ten digits (0-9), and the binary system which uses two (0 and 1), the octal system uses eight digits: 0 through 7. Each position in an octal number represents a power of 8.

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