walloping

Other forms of walloping

plural

wallopings·

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 walloping

What does walloping mean?

walloping means "a sound defeat". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in walloping?

walloping has 3 syllables: wal-lo-ping. The stress falls on "wal". In IPA it is /ˈwɔləpɪŋ/.

What is another word for walloping?

Close synonyms include thrashing, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing. 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 walloping a common word?

walloping 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.