wallop
wal·lop/ˈwɑ.ləp/noun, verb
wallop is spelled W-A-L-L-O-P: 6 letters and 2 syllables (wal·lop). It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 45,947th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, wallop means “A heavy blow, a punch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of wallop is wallops.
How many letters and syllables are in wallop?
| Letters | 6: W-A-L-L-O-P |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: wal·lop |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 45,947th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is wallop?
Wallop appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 45,947th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce wallop?
- UK /ˈwɒl.əp/
- US /ˈwɑ.ləp/
Wallop has 2 syllables, split wal·lop in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-wallop.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with wallop?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as wallop from its last stressed vowel (/ɑləp/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of wallop
- wallops plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- wallup
- walloping participle, present
- walloped participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does wallop mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A heavy blow, a punch.
he gave him a mighty wallop
- 2
A person's ability to throw such punches.
this guy's got some wallop
- 3
An emotional impact, a psychological force.
that film has some serious wallop
- 4
A thrill, an emotionally excited reaction.
- 5
slangAnything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, or whitewash.
- 6
archaicA thick piece of fat.
- 7
ScotlandUKA quick rolling movement; a gallop.
verb
- 1
To rush hastily.
- 2
To flounder, wallow.
- 3
To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
- 4
To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
Tony got walloped round the face by Mike.
- 5
To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
The other side are bringing out their B-team, so we have to aim to completely wallop them.
- 6
To wrap up temporarily.
- 7
To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
- 8
To eat or drink with gusto.
- 9
To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Wallop in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a heavy blow, punch:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does wallop come from?
From Middle English wallopen (“gallop”), from Anglo-Norman [Term?], from Old Northern French walop (“gallop”, noun) and waloper (“to gallop”, verb) (compare Old French galoper, whence modern French galoper), from Frankish *wala hlaupan (“to run well”) from *wala (“well”) + *hlaupan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną (“to run, leap, spring”), from Proto-Indo-European *klaub- (“to spring, stumble”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).