pizzle
/ˈpɪzl̩/noun, verb
pizzle is spelled P-I-Z-Z-L-E: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, pizzle means “The penis of an animal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of pizzle is pizzles.
How many letters and syllables are in pizzle?
| Letters | 6: P-I-Z-Z-L-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 26 million words; the 154,067th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is pizzle?
Pizzle appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce pizzle?
- /ˈpɪzl̩/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-pizzle.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of pizzle
- pizzles plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- pizzel
- pizzell
- pisle
- pizzling participle, present
- pizzled participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does pizzle mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The penis of an animal.
- 2
in heraldry
- 3
the dehydrated meat thereof, as a dog treat
- 4
A baton made from the penis of an ox, once used to beat men and animals.
verb
- 1
rareTo beat (with a pizzle).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Pizzle in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Penis, Fiesel, Ziemer, Ochsenziemer, Rute, Tierpenis |
| French | nerf de bœuf |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does pizzle come from?
From Dutch Low Saxon pesel or West Flemish pezel, diminutive of Middle Dutch pese (“a sinew, tendon, string, pizzle”), from Old Dutch *pisa (“sinew, string, fibre”), possibly ultimately related to vezel (“fiber”), from Proto-West Germanic *fas-il-, from Proto-Indo-European *pē̆s- (“to blow”) (see Old High German faso (“fiber”)); in which case this alternation *pes- / *fes- may indicate a repeated borrowing from a (non-Indo-European?) substrate language.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).