What is the difference between "wether" and "whether"?

The words wether and whether are often confused because they appear similar. We'll help you to understand the difference.

Out of the two words, whether is the most common. It appears about 1,709 times more frequently than wether.

Wether means a castrated buck goat when used as a noun.

We use whether to indicate doubt between alternatives when used as a conjunction. For example:

• Whether he goes or not.
• I'll love you whether you win or lose.

You can see that these words have very different meanings, so it's important not to confuse them.

A good way to remember the difference is to think that a castrated goat is missing something, so wether is missing an H. But unless you're writing an article similar to this, you'll probably never need to use the word wether. Chances are, you'll want whether.

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The definitions in this article were adapted from Wiktionary.