wallace

Other forms of wallace

plural

wallaces·

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 wallace

What does wallace mean?

wallace means "Scottish insurgent who led the resistance to Edward I; in 1297 he gained control of Scotland briefly until Edward invaded Scotland again and defeated Wallace and subsequently executed him (1270-1305)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wallace?

wallace has 2 syllables: wal-lace. The stress falls on "wal". In IPA it is /ˈwɔləs/.

What is another word for wallace?

Close synonyms include Sir William Wallace, Edgar Wallace, Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace, Alfred Russel Wallace. 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 wallace a common word?

wallace is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 wallace?

1 word rhymes with wallace. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.