whipsnake

Other forms of whipsnake

plural

whipsnakes·

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 whipsnake

What does whipsnake mean?

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

How many syllables are in whipsnake?

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

What is another word for whipsnake?

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

whipsnake 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.