whare
wha·re/ˈfɑːɹeɪ/noun
whare is a noun meaning “A Maori house or other building” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled W-H-A-R-E and has 2 syllables (wha·re), and it appears about once in every 10 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of whare is whares.
What does whare mean?
noun
- 1
A Maori house or other building.
- 2
A rough shack or hut built (by Europeans) using traditional Maori techniques; a workman's shack.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce whare?
- /ˈfʌre/
- /ˈfʌri/
- UK /ˈfɑːɹeɪ/
Whare has 2 syllables, split wha·re in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of whare
- whares plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is whare?
Whare appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 92,628th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does whare come from?
Borrowed from Māori whare (“house, hut”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).