whip-snake

Questions about whip-snake

What does whip-snake mean?

whip-snake means "any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails".

How many syllables are in whip-snake?

whip-snake has 2 syllables: whip--snake. The stress falls on "whip-".

What is another word for whip-snake?

Close synonyms include whip snake, whipsnake. 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 whip-snake a common word?

whip-snake is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.