whereabouts
/ˌ(h)wɛəɹəˈbaʊts/adverb, noun
whereabouts is spelled W-H-E-R-E-A-B-O-U-T-S. The wrong spelling people search most is wereabouts: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 56 of all searches for the word. Whereabouts is an adverb meaning “In, at or near what location”.
How many letters and syllables are in whereabouts?
| Letters | 11: W-H-E-R-E-A-B-O-U-T-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.5 times per million words; the 14,106th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, wereabouts, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell whereabouts?
Whereabouts is spelled W-H-E-R-E-A-B-O-U-T-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 56 of the searches for whereabouts 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 whereabouts?
Whereabouts appears 3.5 times per million words in written English, the 14,106th 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 whereabouts?
- /ˌ(h)wɛəɹəˈbaʊts/
As a noun (“A location; where something is situated”): /ˌ(h)wɛəɹəˈbaʊts/, /ˈ(h)wɛəɹəˌbaʊts/.
Whereabouts has 3 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-whereabouts.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does whereabouts mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
In, at or near what location.
Whereabouts do you live?
noun
- 1
A location; where something is situated.
- 2
Information about an elite athlete's future whereabouts, supplied to antidoping authorities to facilitate random out-of-competition testing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Whereabouts in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense location:
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 whereabouts come from?
From Middle English wheraboutes, equivalent to whereabout + -s (adverbial suffix).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).