whiz

1. 1.

   make a soft swishing sound

   “the motor whirred”

   “the car engine purred”

   Synonymswhizzwhirrwhirbirrpurr

   Broadersound

Other forms of whiz

plural

whizes·

past tense or participle

whizzed

past tense or participle

whizzes

present participle

whizzing

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 whiz

What does whiz mean?

whiz means "someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in whiz?

whiz has 1 syllable: whiz. In IPA it is /ˈwɪz/.

What is another word for whiz?

Close synonyms include ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven. 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 whiz a common word?

whiz is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with whiz?

1 word rhymes with whiz. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.