whelp

Other forms of whelp

plural

whelps·

past tense

whelped·

present participle

whelping·

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 whelp

What does whelp mean?

whelp means "young of any of various canines such as a dog or wolf". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in whelp?

whelp has 1 syllable: whelp.

What is another word for whelp?

Close synonyms include pup, pup. 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 whelp a common word?

whelp 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.