wallop

Other forms of wallop

plural

wallops·

past tense

wallopped·

present participle

wallopping·

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 wallop

What does wallop mean?

wallop means "a forceful consequence; a strong effect". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wallop?

wallop has 2 syllables: wal-lop. The stress falls on "wal". In IPA it is /ˈwɑləp/.

What is another word for wallop?

Close synonyms include impact, whack, wham, whop. 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 wallop a common word?

wallop 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.