whack

Other forms of whack

plural

whacks·

past tense

whacked·

present participle

whacking·

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 whack

What does whack mean?

whack means "the sound made by a sharp swift blow". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in whack?

whack has 1 syllable: whack. In IPA it is /ˈwæk/.

What is another word for whack?

Close synonyms include knock, belt, rap, whang, wham. 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 whack a common word?

whack is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 whack?

1 word rhymes with whack. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.