Definitions for fizzle

fizzle fiz·zle

Spelling: [fiz-uh l]
IPA: /ˈfɪz əl/

Fizzle is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 27 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 28 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in fizzle (efilzz).

Definitions for fizzle

noun

  1. a fizzling, hissing, or sputtering.
  2. Informal. a failure; fiasco.

verb (used without object)

  1. to make a hissing or sputtering sound, especially one that dies out weakly.
  2. Informal. to fail ignominiously after a good start (often followed by out):

Origin of fizzle

1525-35; earlier fysel to break wind, frequentative of *fise Old Norse fīsa to break wind; akin to feist

Examples for fizzle

It is a fizzle, a twentieth-century abomination—an invention with no room for an ad.

Could Occupy Wall Street yet prove a harbinger rather than a fizzle?

He predicted that without more mobilization and pressure from outside, reform could “fizzle.”

And I must say, as a raid in force, it was more or less of a fizzle.

Protests have come and gone, and plans for large-scale demonstrations often fizzle.

The Raid was a fizzle and the commander and all his men were captured by the Boers.

But the thing about phenoms is they can come in hot and then fizzle into a lower voltage of play.

If U.S.-Pakistan cooperation were in fact to fizzle, clearly such operations would be compromised.

It was a lot easier just to let her explode and then fizzle out.

You must be so well equipped that you will not make life a “fizzle.”

Word Value for fizzle
Scrable

27

Words with friends

28

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