ballyhoo

Other forms of ballyhoo

plural

ballyhoos·

past tense

ballyhooed·

present participle

ballyhooing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ballyhoo

What does ballyhoo mean?

ballyhoo means "blatant or sensational promotion". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ballyhoo?

ballyhoo has 3 syllables: bal-ly-hoo. The stress falls on "bal". In IPA it is /ˈbæliˈhu/.

What is another word for ballyhoo?

Close synonyms include hoopla, hype, plug. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ballyhoo a common word?

ballyhoo is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with ballyhoo?

3 words rhyme with ballyhoo. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.