wank

Other forms of wank

plural

wanks·

past tense

wanked·

present participle

wanking·

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 wank

What does wank mean?

wank means "slang for masturbation". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wank?

wank has 1 syllable: wank. In IPA it is /ˈwɑŋk/.

What is another word for wank?

Close synonyms include jacking off, jerking off, hand job, masturbate, fuck off. 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 wank a common word?

wank is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.