wizard
wi·zard/ˈwɪzɚd/noun, adjective, verb
wizard is spelled W-I-Z-A-R-D, 2 syllables: wi·zard. The wrong spelling people search most is wizzard: about 360 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 23 of all searches for the word. Wizard is a noun meaning “Someone, usually male, who uses (or has skill with) magic, mystic items, and magical and mystical practices”. The plural of wizard is wizards.
How many letters and syllables are in wizard?
| Letters | 6: W-I-Z-A-R-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: wi·zard |
| In writing | 8.5 times per million words; the 7,910th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, wizzard, about 360 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell wizard?
Wizard is spelled W-I-Z-A-R-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 23 of the searches for wizard in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is wizard?
Wizard appears 8.5 times per million words in written English, the 7,910th 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 wizard?
- UK /ˈwɪzəd/
- /ˈwəzəd/
- US /ˈwɪzɚd/
Wizard has 2 syllables, split wi·zard in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-wizard.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with wizard?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as wizard from its last stressed vowel (/ɪzəɹd/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of wizard
- wizards plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- wizarding participle, present
- wizarded participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does wizard mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Someone, usually male, who uses (or has skill with) magic, mystic items, and magical and mystical practices.
The wizard conjured up a large fireball.
- 2
One who is especially skilled or unusually talented in a particular field.
He was a financial wizard, capable of predicting the movements of the stock markets.
- 3
A computer program or script used to simplify complex operations, often for an inexperienced user.
Use the "Add Network Connection" wizard to connect to a network in a series of simple steps.
- 4
An administrator of a multi-user dungeon, or someone who has earned similar rights through gameplay; a user in wizard mode.
- 5
obsoleteA wise man; a sage.
- 6
A virgin over the age of 30 who does not socialize and thus cannot find a sexual partner.
- 7
Someone who deepfakes pornographic material using content from social media (usually selfies of people) at the request of others.
verb
- 1
To practice wizardry.
- 2
To conjure.
adjective
- 1
UKdatedslangFine, superb (originally RAF slang).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Wizard in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | mage, sorcier , assistant |
| German | Zauberer, Magier, Hexenmeister , Assistent |
| Portuguese | bruxo, mago, feiticeiro , assistente |
| Spanish | mago, brujo, hechicero, nigromante , maestro |
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 wizard come from?
From Middle English wysard, wysarde, equivalent to wise + -ard. A uniquely medieval English word with no known morphologically exact cognates in other Germanic languages; did not gain distinct sense of "occultist, magic user" (as opposed to a philosopher or sage) until circa 1500s, aligning roughly with the starting English Renaissance. However, via Proto-Indo-European *weyd- cognate with Proto-Celtic *druwits (whence English druid), Proto-Slavic *vědьma (Polish wiedźma, Russian ве́дьма (védʹma)), Russian веду́н (vedún).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).