whooper

1. 1.

   rare North American crane having black-and-white plumage and a trumpeting call

   Synonymswhooping craneGrus americana

   Broadercrane

   Part ofGrus
2. 2.

   common Old World swan noted for its whooping call

   Synonymswhooper swanCygnus cygnus

   Broaderswan

   Part ofCygnus

Other forms of whooper

plural

whoopers·

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 whooper

What does whooper mean?

whooper means "rare North American crane having black-and-white plumage and a trumpeting call". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in whooper?

whooper has 2 syllables: whoo-per. The stress falls on "whoo".

What is another word for whooper?

Close synonyms include whooping crane, Grus americana, whooper swan, Cygnus cygnus. 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 whooper a common word?

whooper 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.