voodoo

1. 1.

   bewitch by or as if by a voodoo

   Broaderhex

Other forms of voodoo

plural

voodoos·

past tense

voodooed·

present participle

voodooing·

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 voodoo

What does voodoo mean?

voodoo means "a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in voodoo?

voodoo has 2 syllables: voo-doo. The stress falls on "voo". In IPA it is /ˈvuˌdu/.

What is another word for voodoo?

Close synonyms include juju, hoodoo, fetish, fetich, vodoun. 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 voodoo a common word?

voodoo 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 voodoo?

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