whizz

1. 1.

   someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field

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   Broaderexpert

   Narrowertrack star

Other forms of whizz

plural

whizzes·

past tense

whizzed·

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 whizz

What does whizz mean?

whizz means "make a soft swishing sound". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in whizz?

whizz has 1 syllable: whizz.

What is another word for whizz?

Close synonyms include whiz, whirr, whir, birr, purr. 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 whizz a common word?

whizz is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.