fiss
/fɪs/
fiss verb: to split apart into multiple entities.
Verb
fiss (third-person singular simple present fisses, present participle fissing, simple past and past participle fissed)
- To split apart into multiple entities.
- Perhaps every five minutes each person ceases to exist and is fissed, with one descendant instantly replacing the original and the other materializing on a twin Earth somewhere […]1998, Richard Hanley, Is Data Human?
Noun capitalized: FISs
FISs
- plural of FIS
Forms of fiss
| third-person singular present | fisses |
|---|---|
| present participle | fissing |
| past participle | fissed |
| past | fissed |
Origin of fiss
From fission by back-formation.
Words that rhyme with fiss
Questions about fiss
- What does fiss mean?
- Fiss means to split apart into multiple entities.
- What part of speech is fiss?
- Fiss can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce fiss?
- Fiss is pronounced /fɪs/.
- What is the past tense of fiss?
- The past tense of fiss is fissed.
Words near fiss in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fiss (page history and authors); FISs (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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