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swizz

noun, verb

swizz is spelled S-W-I-Z-Z: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 69,055th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, swizz means “A swindle, con” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of swizz is swizzes.

How many letters and syllables are in swizz?

Letters5: S-W-I-Z-Z
In writingabout once in every 5 million words; the 69,055th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 swizz?

Swizz appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 69,055th 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).

Forms of swizz

  • swizzes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • swiz
  • swizzing participle, present
  • swizzed participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does swizz mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    UKinformalA swindle, con.

    That packet only had ten sweets in it; what a swizz.

verb

  1. 1

    UKinformalTo swindle.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Swizz in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchentourloupe, arnaque (a swindle), entourlouper, arnaquer (to swindle)

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 swizz come from?

Possible alteration of swindle, early 20th c.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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