whipsaw

Other forms of whipsaw

plural

whipsaws·

past tense or participle

whipsawn

present participle

whipsawing·

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 whipsaw

What does whipsaw mean?

whipsaw means "victimize, especially in gambling or negotiations". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in whipsaw?

whipsaw has 2 syllables: whip-saw. The stress falls on "whip". In IPA it is /ˈwɪpˌsɔ/.

What is another word for whipsaw?

Close synonyms include two-handed saw, two-man saw, lumberman's saw. 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 whipsaw a common word?

whipsaw 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.

What rhymes with whipsaw?

9 words rhyme with whipsaw. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.