whomsoever
/ˌhumsoʊˈɛvəɹ/pronoun
whomsoever is spelled W-H-O-M-S-O-E-V-E-R: 10 letters and 4 syllables. It appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a pronoun, whomsoever means “Whatever person or persons (as object of a verb or preposition): emphasised or elaborated form of whomever” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in whomsoever?
| Letters | 10: W-H-O-M-S-O-E-V-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 11 million words; the 100,430th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is whomsoever?
Whomsoever appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th 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 whomsoever?
- US /ˌhumsoʊˈɛvəɹ/
Whomsoever 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_whomsoever.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-whomsoever.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with whomsoever?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as whomsoever 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 whomsoever
- of whosoever
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does whomsoever mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
pronoun
- 1
Whatever person or persons (as object of a verb or preposition): emphasised or elaborated form of whomever.
We shall tell the good news to whomsoever we meet.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does whomsoever come from?
From Middle English whom so evere, whom soever, whom-so-ever, whom-so-evere, whomsoever, whom-so-evyr. By surface analysis, whom + so + -ever.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).