# who vs whose

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### who
*pronoun · IPA /huː/ · frequency rank #53*
What person or people; which person or people; asks for the identity of someone; used in a direct or indirect question.

### whose
*determiner · IPA /huːz/ · frequency rank #919*
Of whom, belonging to whom; which person's or people's.

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