whinny

Other forms of whinny

plural

whinnies·

past tense or participle

whinnied

present participle

whinnying·

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 whinny

What does whinny mean?

whinny means "the characteristic sounds made by a horse". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in whinny?

whinny has 2 syllables: whin-ny. The stress falls on "whin".

What is another word for whinny?

Close synonyms include neigh, nicker, whicker, neigh, nicker. 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 whinny a common word?

whinny 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.