Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

that's

/ðəts/

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.86 in modern English

Syllables: that's
IPA: /ðəts/

8

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

contraction

That is.

contraction

That has.

contraction

That was.

det

whose, of which (in dialects that require a human antecedent for 'whose')

Canadian usage; American usage

Example Sentences

"That's the book I've been looking for."
"I've managed to find the solution to the problem that's been bugging me all day."
"Yesterday, that's bugging me all day."
"He had in his pocket an old flick-knife that's spring was slow and temperamental."
""[…] we want them to bring a product to market that's time had not yet come," said Ray Farhung, a Southern California Edison official."
"1995, Aimo Seppänen & Göran Kjellmer. The dog that's leg was run over: On the genitive of the relative pronoun. English Studies 76, 389–400."

Etymology

From that + 's (contraction of words ending in s).

Usage

Canadian usage
American usage

Inflected Forms

das (alternative) dat's (alternative) thass (alternative) thas (alternative) thazz (alternative) thash (alternative) thats (alternative)

Rhymes With

cats stats rats congrats hats bats flats fats mats katz chats pats

Questions

How do you pronounce that's?: The recorded pronunciation is /ðəts/.
What does that's mean?: That is.
Where does that's come from?: From that + 's (contraction of words ending in s).

How to pronounce that's

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