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say it: WI-spur
whisper is a noun and verb meaning "speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords". It is pronounced /ˈwɪspɚ/ — WI-spur. It carries 3 recorded senses.
speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords
a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for whisper come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.