How do you pronounce how'd?

The recorded pronunciation is /haʊd/.

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

how'd

/haʊd/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.41 in modern English

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how did

contraction

how had

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how would

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