whirlpool

Other forms of whirlpool

plural

whirlpools·

past tense

whirlpooled·

present participle

whirlpooling·

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 whirlpool

What does whirlpool mean?

whirlpool means "a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in whirlpool?

whirlpool has 2 syllables: whirl-pool. The stress falls on "whirl". In IPA it is /ˈwɝlˌpul/.

What is another word for whirlpool?

Close synonyms include vortex, maelstrom, eddy, purl, swirl. 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 whirlpool a common word?

whirlpool 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.

What rhymes with whirlpool?

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