fizgig

Other forms of fizgig

plural

fizgigs·

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.

Questions about fizgig

What does fizgig mean?

fizgig means "an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fizgig?

fizgig has 2 syllables: fiz-gig. The stress falls on "fiz".

What is another word for fizgig?

Close synonyms include spear, gig, fishgig, lance. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fizgig a common word?

fizgig is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.