how's

See also: hows

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haʊz/

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• (Northumbria) IPA^(key): /huːz/
• Rhymes: -aʊz
• Homophone: house (verb, in some dialects)

Contraction

how's

1. Contraction of how +‎ is.
2. Contraction of how +‎ are.

   Synonym: how're

   How’s things

3. Contraction of how +‎ has.
4. Contraction of how +‎ does.

   How’s that work?

Noun

how's

1. Alternative spelling of hows (plural of how).
   • 1977, Alva Myrdal, The Game of Disarmament: How the United States and Russia Run the Arms Race‎, A Personal Note (foreword), page xxiii:

     I was never able to stop the search for the why's and how's of something so senseless as the arms race.

See also

• how're

Anagrams

• Show, show, who's, whos