siss

Other forms of siss

past tense

sissed·

present participle

sissing·

third person

sisses·

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 siss

What does siss mean?

siss means "express or utter with a hiss". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in siss?

siss has 1 syllable: siss.

What is another word for siss?

Close synonyms include hiss, sizz, sibilate, hiss, sizz. 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 siss a common word?

siss 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.