if

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This word consists of 2 letters and is spelled as "I-F". It has 1 vowel and 1 consonant.

How do you spell if

Typo fix for "if"

if

conjunction

How to pronunciation if: ˈif

What does If Mean?

What does if meaning in English

1. Suppose that; allowing that. A hypothetical particle. Absolute approbation, without any cautions, qualifications, ifs or ands. Hooker, Preface. If that rebellion Came like itself, in base and abject routs; I say, if damn’d commotion so appear’d, In his true, native, and most proper shape, You, reverend father, and these noble lords, Had not been here. Shakespeare’s Henry IV. If they have done this deed, my noble lord. —— If! talk’st thou to me of ifs? Thou art a traitor. Shak. This seeing of all things, because we can desire to see all things, he makes a proof that they are present to our minds; and if they be present, they can no ways be present but by the presence of God, who contains them all. Locke. This is only an infallibility upon supposition, which amounts to this, that if a thing be true, it is impossible to be false. Tillotson’s Sermons, Preface. All of them suppose the apostle to have allowed the Epicurean maxim to be good; if so be there were no resurrection. Atterbury’s Sermons, Preface. Tisiphone , that oft hast heard my pray’r, Assist, if Oedipus deserve thy care. Pope’s Statius.
   
2. Whether or no. Uncertain if by augury, or chance; But by this easy rise they all advance. Dryden. She doubts if two and two make four: It can’t —— it may be —— and it must; To which of these must Alma trust? Nay, further yet they make her go, In doubting if she doubts or no. Prior.
   
3. Though I doubt whether; suppose it be granted that. Such mechanical circumstances, if I may so call them, were not necessary to the experiments. Boyle.

Other definitions for if

The definition of 'if' is: in the event that

How many syllables does "if" have?

Want to know how to spell if, you will find a comprehensive answer on this topic. The word "if consists of 1 syllables and is spelled "ˈif".

Synonyms for if:

There are synonyms for 'if'. Depending on the situation and context, the following words are also often used instead of 'if':

assumption, given, hypothetical, postulate, premise, presumption, presupposition, supposition

Some words similar to "if"

• ifc
• ifad
• ifrn
• vif
• lif
• gif
• wif

The word "if" in works of art

I'm gonna need you to go ahead and come in tomorrow. So if you could be here around 9, that would be great.

Office Space / Mike Judge

What is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in a speech, sneaking in behind the thing itself, into the pure present, making us sad or teaching us vicariously...

Roberto Bolaño / 2666

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain

Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

The Catcher in the Rye / J.D. Salinger

You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.

Doctor Zhivago / Boris Pasternak

That's a pretty fucking good milkshake. I don't know if it's worth five dollars but it's pretty fucking good.

Pulp Fiction / Quentin Tarantino

All around, deep shadows, as if the world is becoming dark, the sun is fading away. Everything changes, is fleeting. But when we hold each other hand in hand, in tight embrace, even death doesn't matter. We can hold on to happiness, to love, to each other. We can hold on to life itself.

The Road / Vasily Grossman

Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

The Catcher in the Rye / J.D. Salinger

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?

Our Town / Thornton Wilder

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

Lolita / Vladimir Nabokov

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How many points in scrabble for if

How many points is the word "if" in Scrabble? Is "if" a Scrabble word? Here is the letter-by-letter scoring of the Scrabble game, which is played all over the world in different languages and with different words.

The total scrabble score for the word if is 5