Word.ws English Dictionary

woah

/woʊ/

woah is the alternative spelling of whoa.

Meaning of whoa

Interjection

  1. Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down.
    • Whoa, Nelly!
  2. An expression of surprise.
    • Whoa, are you serious?
  3. Used as a meaningless filler in song lyrics.
    • I am the type who is liable to snipe you
      With two seconds left to go, whoa.2003, "Weird Al" Yankovic, eBay (song)

See all 4 meanings of whoa

Words that rhyme with woah

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about woah

What is woah the alternative spelling of?
Woah is the alternative spelling of whoa.
How do you pronounce woah?
Woah is pronounced /woʊ/ (US).

Words near woah in the dictionary

  1. woadsters
  2. woadwax
  3. woadwaxen
  4. woadwaxens
  5. woady
  6. woah
  7. woahjack
  8. woahjacks
  9. woaj
  10. woak
  11. Woakes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: woah (page history and authors); whoa (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: En-us-woah.ogg.

Cite this entry: “woah.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/woah. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.