# whenever vs whoever

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### whenever
*conjunction · IPA /wəˈnɛvə/ · frequency rank #2,375*
At any time that.

### whoever
*pronoun · IPA /huˈɛvɚ/ · frequency rank #3,539*
Who ever: an emphatic form of who.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/whenever-vs-whoever