Who'll
otherA contraction of 'who will' (or sometimes 'who shall'), used to ask or state which person is going to do something.
How to spell who'll
5 letters · 1 syllable
How to pronounce who'll
What does who'll mean?
- otherA contraction of 'who will' (or sometimes 'who shall'), used to ask or state which person is going to do something.
Who'll in a sentence
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Who'll be covering the front desk while you are on leave?
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Nobody has decided yet who'll chair the meeting next week.
Where does who'll come from?
Language of origin: Germanic
This is a contraction joining the pronoun 'who' with the auxiliary verb 'will'. The first element comes from Old English 'hwa', the interrogative pronoun meaning 'who' or 'what person', which traces back to the same ancient root that gave Latin 'quis' and other question words across European languages. The second element, 'will', comes from Old English 'willan', meaning 'to wish' or 'to intend', a verb that originally carried a strong sense of desire before it weakened into a plain marker of the future tense. The apostrophe stands in for the missing letters 'wi' that were dropped when the two words were squeezed together in speech, a habit of written English that became common from the 1600s onward. The spelling trap is purely the sound: spoken aloud, 'who'll' is identical to 'whole' and to 'hole', so the apostrophe is the only thing keeping the contraction visibly distinct on the page.
How the word is built
- who (interrogative/relative pronoun)
- 'll (contracted will or shall)
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