# wallop

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈwɒl.əp/ · frequency rank #46,259

## Definitions
1. A heavy blow, a punch.
2. A person's ability to throw such punches.
3. An emotional impact, a psychological force.
4. A thrill, an emotionally excited reaction.
5. Anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, or whitewash.
6. A thick piece of fat.
7. A quick rolling movement; a gallop.

## Etymology
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”). Possibly also derived from a deverbal of Frankish *walhlaup (“battle run”) from *wal (“battlefield”) from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (“dead, victim, slain”) from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“death in battle, killed in battle”) + *hlaup (“course, track”) from *hlaupan (“to run”). Compare the doublet gallop.

## Easily confused with
- **walls** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wallop-vs-walls)
- **Wally** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wallop-vs-wally)
- **willow** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wallop-vs-willow)
- **Walton** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wallop-vs-walton)
- **wallow** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wallop-vs-wallow)
- **wall** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wall-vs-wallop)
- **waldo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/waldo-vs-wallop)
- **wallet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wallet-vs-wallop)
- **walled** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/walled-vs-wallop)
- **waller** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/waller-vs-wallop)
- **Wallis** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wallis-vs-wallop)

## Common misspellings (7)
`awllop`, `wallopp`, `wallpo`, `walolp`, `walop`, `wlalop`, `wwallop`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/wallop