Word.ws English Dictionary

Rizzo

Rizzo proper noun: a surname from Italian.

Proper noun

Rizzo (plural Rizzos)

  1. A surname from Italian.
    • I nevertheless enjoyed reminiscing with Frank Rizzo Jr., who was watching with astonishment as hordes of people continued to traipse through his family home.2019 January 3, Michael Smerconish, “The Nixon letter I can’t forget”, in CNN, archived from the original on 23 Oct 2021

Forms of Rizzo

pluralRizzos

Origin of Rizzo

Borrowed from Old Italian and Neapolitan Rizzo and/or front Sicilian Rizzu.

Questions about Rizzo

What does Rizzo mean?
Rizzo means a surname from Italian.
What part of speech is Rizzo?
Rizzo is a proper noun.

Words near Rizzo in the dictionary

  1. rizzler
  2. rizzlers
  3. rizzles
  4. rizzless
  5. rizzling
  6. Rizzo
  7. Rizzolo
  8. rizzology
  9. Rizzolos
  10. rizzonomics
  11. Rizzos

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Rizzo (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Rizzo.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/rizzo. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.