# who've vs whoever

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### who've
*contraction · IPA /huːv/ · frequency rank #11,326*
Contraction of who + have.

### 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/who-ve-vs-whoever