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wiz

/wɪz/

wiz noun: a person who is exceptionally clever, gifted or skilled in a particular area. Also the alternative spelling of whiz.

Noun

wiz (plural wizzes)

  1. A person who is exceptionally clever, gifted or skilled in a particular area.
    • a maths wiz
  2. (Internet, informal) A wizard; an administrator of a multi-user dungeon.
    • One notorious trick in less reputable corners of the MUD universe is to talk somebody into going into a dark corner of a MUD for some tinysex — dirty talking via computer screen, within character for the MUD, along with explicit posing — a dark corner where some invisible wizzes are hiding.2000, Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community, revised edition, page 154
    • The wizzes are only the junior grade of the MUD illuminati. The people who attain the senior grade of MUD freemasonry by starting their own MUD, with all due hubris, are known as gods.2003, David Lojek, Emote to the Max, page 11

Verb

wiz (third-person singular simple present wizzes, present participle wizzing, simple past and past participle wizzed)

  1. (Internet, informal, intransitive) To be promoted to wizard (administrator) status in a multi-user dungeon, by completing the game quest.
    • I lost interest and stopped playing soon after I wizzed.

Also used as

wiz is also the alternative spelling of whiz.

wiz is also the pronunciation spelling of with.

wiz meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

wiz in Tamil

விஸ்

wiz in Marathi

विझ

wiz in Urdu

وزیز

wiz in Bengali

উইজ, ওয়িজ
More languagesFewer languages
wiz in Telugu
విజ్
wiz in Malayalam
വിസ്
wiz in Gujarati
વિઝ
wiz in Odia
ୱିଜ, ୱିଜ୍
wiz in Nepali
विज़

Forms of wiz

Noun
pluralwizzes
Verb
third-person singular presentwizzes
present participlewizzing
past participlewizzed
pastwizzed

Origin of wiz

Clipping of wizard.

Onomatopoeic for the sound made by urination.

See with.

Words formed from wiz

Phrases with wiz

Words that rhyme with wiz

32 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about wiz

What does wiz mean?
Wiz means a person who is exceptionally clever, gifted or skilled in a particular area.
What is wiz in Tamil?
Wiz in Tamil is விஸ். See Wiz meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is wiz?
Wiz can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce wiz?
Wiz is pronounced /wɪz/.
What is the plural of wiz?
The plural of wiz is wizzes.

Words near wiz in the dictionary

  1. Wixsons
  2. Wixted
  3. Wixárika
  4. Wixárikas
  5. Wiyot
  6. wiz
  7. wizard
  8. Wizard Book
  9. wizard hat
  10. wizard hats
  11. wizard mode

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wiz (page history and authors); wiz (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wiz (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wiz (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wiz (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wiz (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wiz (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wiz (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wiz (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wiz (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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