walleye

Other forms of walleye

plural

walleyes·

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 walleye

What does walleye mean?

walleye means "strabismus in which one or both eyes are directed outward". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in walleye?

walleye has 2 syllables: wal-leye. The stress falls on "wal". In IPA it is /ˈwɔˌlaɪ/.

What is another word for walleye?

Close synonyms include divergent strabismus, exotropia, walleyed pike, jack salmon, dory. 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 walleye a common word?

walleye 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.

What rhymes with walleye?

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