whomever
/humˈɛvɚ/pronoun
whomever is spelled W-H-O-M-E-V-E-R: 8 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 24,745th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “whoever vs whomever” about 8,100 times a month (Google, United States). As a pronoun, whomever means “Whatever person or persons (as object of verb or preposition)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in whomever?
| Letters | 8: W-H-O-M-E-V-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.3 times per million words; the 24,745th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| 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 common is whomever?
Whomever appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 24,745th 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 whomever?
- US /humˈɛvɚ/
Whomever 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_whomever.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-whomever.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with whomever
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with whomever?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as whomever 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 whomever
- of whoever
- whomsoever
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does whomever mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
pronoun
- 1
Whatever person or persons (as object of verb or preposition).
The letter is addressed to whomever it may concern.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Whomever in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense whatever person or persons:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | n'importe qui |
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 whomever come from?
From Middle English whomever; equivalent to whom + -ever.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).