waterloo

Other forms of waterloo

plural

waterloos·

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 waterloo

What does waterloo mean?

waterloo means "a town in central Belgium where in 1815 Napoleon met his final defeat". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in waterloo?

waterloo has 3 syllables: wa-ter-loo. The stress falls on "wa". In IPA it is /ˈwɔtɚˌlu/.

What is another word for waterloo?

Close synonyms include Battle of Waterloo. 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 waterloo a common word?

waterloo 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.

What rhymes with waterloo?

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