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who's

Syllabification: (who's)
Pronunciation: /ho͞oz/
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Definition of who's

contraction

  • who is:who’s that?
  • who has:who’s done the reading?

A common written mistake is to confuse who’s with whose. The form who’s represents a contraction of ‘who is’ or ‘who has’: who’s going to feed the dog? I wonder who’s left the light on again? The word whose is a possessive pronoun or adjective: whose is this? whose turn is it?.

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