wahoo

Other forms of wahoo

plural

wahoos·

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 wahoo

What does wahoo mean?

wahoo means "upright deciduous plant with crimson pods and seeds; the eastern United States from New York to Florida and Texas". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wahoo?

wahoo has 2 syllables: wa-hoo. The stress falls on "hoo". In IPA it is /wəˈhu/.

What is another word for wahoo?

Close synonyms include strawberry bush, Euonymus americanus, burning bush, Euonymus atropurpureus, Acanthocybium solandri. 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 wahoo a common word?

wahoo is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 wahoo?

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