frizz

Other forms of frizz

plural

frizzes·

past tense

frizzed·

present participle

frizzing·

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 frizz

What does frizz mean?

frizz means "the condition of being formed into small tight curls". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in frizz?

frizz has 1 syllable: frizz. In IPA it is /ˈfɹɪz/.

What is another word for frizz?

Close synonyms include crimp, crape, frizzle, kink up, kink. 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 frizz a common word?

frizz 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.