whatsoever
/ˌ(h)wʌtsoʊˈɛvɚ/determiner, adverb
whatsoever is spelled W-H-A-T-S-O-E-V-E-R. The wrong spelling people search most is whatsover: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 51 of all searches for the word. Whatsoever is a determiner meaning “Whatever”.
How many letters and syllables are in whatsoever?
| Letters | 10: W-H-A-T-S-O-E-V-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 9.8 times per million words; the 7,224th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, whatsover, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell whatsoever?
Whatsoever is spelled W-H-A-T-S-O-E-V-E-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 51 of the searches for whatsoever in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is whatsoever?
Whatsoever appears 9.8 times per million words in written English, the 7,224th 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).
How do you pronounce whatsoever?
- UK /ˌwɒtsəʊˈɛvə(ɹ)/
- US /ˌ(h)wʌtsoʊˈɛvɚ/
Whatsoever has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-whatsoever.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with whatsoever
Also written: what-so-ever (one word or two).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with whatsoever?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as whatsoever from its last stressed vowel (/ɛvəɹ/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of whatsoever
- what-so-ever rare
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does whatsoever mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
determiner
- 1
Whatever.
The building may be used for whatsoever purpose the tenant desires.
adverb
- 1
In any way; at all; whatever.
He gave me no answer whatsoever.
pronoun
- 1
archaicWhatever.
Whatsoever you seek, you will find.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate whatsoever?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of whatsoever: whatso.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Whatsoever in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense in any way:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | du tout, d'aucune sorte, quelconque |
| German | überhaupt |
| Portuguese | de forma alguma, de forma nenhuma, de modo algum, de maneira nenhuma, de jeito algum |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does whatsoever come from?
From Middle English whatsoever. By surface analysis, what + so + -ever.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).