whiplash

Other forms of whiplash

plural

whiplashes·

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 whiplash

What does whiplash mean?

whiplash means "an injury to the neck (the cervical vertebrae) resulting from rapid acceleration or deceleration (as in an automobile accident)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in whiplash?

whiplash has 2 syllables: whip-lash. The stress falls on "whip". In IPA it is /ˈwɪˌplæʃ/.

What is another word for whiplash?

Close synonyms include whiplash injury, whip, lash. 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 whiplash a common word?

whiplash 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.