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say it: fiz
fizz is a noun and verb meaning "an effervescent beverage (usually alcoholic)". It is pronounced /ˈfɪz/ — fiz. It carries 2 recorded senses.
an effervescent beverage (usually alcoholic)
become bubbly or frothy or foaming
“The boiling soup was frothing”
“The river was foaming”
“sparkling water”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for fizz come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.