baloney

Other forms of baloney

plural

baloneys·

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 baloney

What does baloney mean?

baloney means "pretentious or silly talk or writing".

How many syllables are in baloney?

baloney has 3 syllables: ba-lo-ney. The stress falls on "lo". In IPA it is /bəˈloʊni/.

What is another word for baloney?

Close synonyms include boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug. 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 baloney a common word?

baloney is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 baloney?

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