Definitions for fizzles

fizzles fiz·zle

Spelling: [fiz-uh l]
IPA: /ˈfɪz əl/

Fizzles is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 27 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 28 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in fizzles (efilszz).

Definitions for fizzles

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 fizzles

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

Examples for fizzles

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for fizzles
Scrable

27

Words with friends

28

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