ululate

Other forms of ululate

past tense

ululated·

present participle

ululating·

third person

ululates·

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 ululate

What does ululate mean?

ululate means "emit long loud cries".

How many syllables are in ululate?

ululate has 3 syllables: u-lu-late. The stress falls on "u".

What is another word for ululate?

Close synonyms include howl, wail, roar, yawl, yaup. 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 ululate a common word?

ululate 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.