Definitions for whiz

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Spelling: [hwiz, wiz]

IPA: /ʰwɪz, wɪz/

Whiz is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in whiz (hiwz).

Definitions for whiz

noun

1. Informal. a person who is quite good at a particular activity, in a certain field, etc.:
2. the sound of a whizzing object.
3. a swift movement producing such a sound.
4. wizard (def 3).

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to whiz.
2. to treat with a whizzer.

verb (used without object)

1. to make a humming, buzzing, or hissing sound, as an object passing swiftly through the air.
2. to move or rush with such a sound:

Origin of whiz

1540-50; imitative; cf. fizz

Examples for whiz

Then wielding the sword aloft, he made it whiz past Mr. Landor's neck.

The other ferry-boats have a comical appearance as they whirl and whiz past us.

A flash—a report—and the whiz of a bullet told him that he was observed.

You should have heard me whiz, and seen the electric fur fly!

They had not gone many hundred yards before I heard the whiz of a bullet.

He was about to go on to say that he wondered if he would be caught at all, when—whiz!

Bang went the gun, whiz went the rocket, almost at the same moment.

Significantly, Ruthie was also a whiz at math—a subject in which Bernie was notably deficient.

The school shivered as they saw it whiz straight for the weak point.

We had not gained more than a hundred yards when the whiz of an arrow met our ears.