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walloping

adjective, adverb, noun, verb

walloping is spelled W-A-L-L-O-P-I-N-G: 9 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 133,440th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, walloping means “Whopping, large in size” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in walloping?

Letters9: W-A-L-L-O-P-I-N-G
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 19 million words; the 133,440th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is walloping?

Walloping appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 133,440th 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 walloping?

    Walloping has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Forms of walloping

    • more walloping comparative
    • most walloping superlative
    • wallopings plural

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    What does walloping mean?

    The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

    adjective

    1. 1

      slangWhopping, large in size.

      The fishermen came back with a walloping catch.

    2. 2

      slangOf exceptional, impressive quality.

    adverb

    1. 1

      Used to emphasize the size or extent.

      a walloping big lie

    noun

    1. 1

      A series of wallops or blows; a beating.

    2. 2

      Verbal abuse.

      For forgetting to pick up the package again, my boss gave me a walloping.

    3. 3

      A thrashing, serious defeat.

    verb

    1. 1

      present participle and gerund of wallop (a form of wallop)

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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