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say it: wisp
wisp is a noun meaning "a small tuft or lock". It is pronounced /ˈwɪsp/ — wisp. It carries 4 recorded senses.
a small bundle of straw or hay
a flock of snipe
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 wisp 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.