# rizz
## English
### Pronunciation

* (US, UK, General Australian) enPR: rĭz, IPA: /ˈɹɪz/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪz

### Etymology 1

Coined by YouTuber and Twitch streamer Kai Cenat (or one of his close friends) around May 2021 and popularized on TikTok in 2022. Rizz further increased in prominence throughout 2023 and was chosen as the 2023 Word of the Year by Oxford University Press. Contrary to popular belief, Cenat has confirmed that the term is not short for charisma.

#### Noun

rizz (uncountable)
* (slang) A person's ability to seduce or woo a potential (usually female) love interest; charm, game.
    Synonym: charisma
    negative rizz, L rizz ― disastrously poor rizz; the ability to repel others
    Wow, that guy has no rizz whatsoever.
    You got her number? W rizz!
    Bruh, that girl has better rizz than I do.
** 2023 June 26, Lauren Mechling, “Baby Gronk, internet stardom and the Sports Dad nightmare writ large”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-22:Baby Gronk shared that he would be focusing not on grade school or a paper route but ... his love for video games. To be fair, the purported "rizz king" of the pre-pubescent sports world is probably not the one who actually said any of the above.
** 2023 July 18, Ben Nagle, “Olivia Dunne's online feud with TikTok rival Breckie Hill heats up as she claims fellow social media star 'can't keep my name out of her mouth'”, in Daily Mail‎, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-21:On Monday, Hill posted a TikTok using a filter which rated her 'rizz level', with it giving her 96/100 and 'rizz god' status.
** 2024 January 8, James Greig, “Can AI finally help me to get some rizz? An investigation”, in Dazed‎, London: Dazed Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-08:By now we all know how stilted and off-kilter ChatGPT sounds: blind confidence and a lack of shame can get you far in life, but could it really have more 'rizz' than even the most stilted and awkward human?
** 2024 February 22, Kase Wickman, “Let Zendaya Tell You All About Tom Holland’s Rizz”, in Radhika Jones, editor, Vanity Fair‎, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 4 March 2024:As it turns out, Zendaya's rizz-o-meter needed to scan beyond the bounds of Arrakis to hone in on who had the most rizz of all.
** 2024 November 18, “Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo Perform a Song About Wicked”‎performed by Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo:While Glinda chases boys with rizz.

##### Derived terms

* rizzed up
* rizzful
* rizzler
* rizzology
* rizzonomics
* rizz up
* rizzy
* skibidi Ohio rizz
* unspoken rizz

##### Descendants

* → Finnish: rizz
* → Swedish: rizz
* → Bengali: রিজ়

#### Verb

rizz (third-person singular simple present rizzes, present participle rizzing, simple past and past participle rizzed)
* (transitive, slang) To seduce or woo a (usually female) love interest; to attract someone using rizz.
    Synonym: rizz up
    I'm gonna go rizz one of those girls.
** 2023 June 8, Kalhan Rosenblatt, “Who is Baby Gronk? Did Livvy 'rizz' him up? What does any of this really mean?”, in NBC News‎, archived from the original on 2023-06-22:In one of De Tolla's videos, he says that Dunne "rizzed" Madden while convincing him to attend LSU. In another video, he jokes that Madden "rizzed up" Dunne and the 10-year-old stole the gymnastics star from her boyfriend, the "drip king." "Drip" refers to swagger and style.

##### Usage notes

* The verb is usually paired with up: see rizz up.

##### Descendants

* → Spanish: rizzear

#### See also

* drip
* goated
* gyatt
* ritz
* sigma

### Etymology 2

Clipping of Rizla+ rolling paper brand.

#### Noun

rizz (uncountable)
* (MLE, slang) An amount of rolling paper particularly of the Rizla+ brand.
** 2024 September 2, “Niz” (0:31 from the start), Liz (lyrics):And I heard that the yutes are lizz fuck it, I’m tryna put him in the rizz

### References

* 1 2 Brad Callas (2023 July 17) “Kai Cenat on How He Populized, Poprulized, AND Popularized the Term 'Rizz'”, in Complex‎, New York, N.Y.: Complex Networks, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-04: “21-year-old Cenat explains that rizz was a product of his group of friends' shared vernacular. […] He adds that "rizz just meant game," before clarifying it's not "short for charisma," contrary to what others have said.”
* ↑ “Rizz / Unspoken Rizz”, in Know Your Meme, website first launched 2007
* ↑ Yasmine Leung (2022 April 22) “TikTok: Meaning and Origin of Rizz Explained as Slang Takes over Platform”, in HITC‎, archived from the original on 2023-03-27
* ↑ Lora Kelley (2023 December 5) “Oxford's 2023 Word of the Year Is ... 'Rizz'”, in The Atlantic‎, archived from the original on 6 December 2023
* ↑ Kelly E[lizabeth] Wright, Benjamin Zimmer (2023 November) “Among the New Words”, in American Speech, volume 98, number 4, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 459: “While popularly thought to be derived from charisma, Kai Cenat denies it.”

### Further reading

* “rizz”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
* “rizz”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
* rizz on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Finnish
### Etymology

From English rizz.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈris/, [ˈris̠]
* Rhymes: -is

### Noun

rizz (slang, Anglicism)
* rizz

#### Declension

Possessive forms of rizz (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
rizzini
rizzini
accusative
nom.
rizzini
rizzini
gen.
rizzini
genitive
rizzini
rizzieni
partitive
rizziäni
rizzejäni
inessive
rizzissäni
rizzeissäni
elative
rizzistäni
rizzeistäni
illative
rizziini
rizzeihini
adessive
rizzilläni
rizzeilläni
ablative
rizziltäni
rizzeiltäni
allative
rizzilleni
rizzeilleni
essive
rizzinäni
rizzeinäni
translative
rizzikseni
rizzeikseni
abessive
rizzittäni
rizzeittäni
instructive
comitative
—rizzeineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
rizzisi
rizzisi
accusative
nom.
rizzisi
rizzisi
gen.
rizzisi
genitive
rizzisi
rizziesi
partitive
rizziäsi
rizzejäsi
inessive
rizzissäsi
rizzeissäsi
elative
rizzistäsi
rizzeistäsi
illative
rizziisi
rizzeihisi
adessive
rizzilläsi
rizzeilläsi
ablative
rizziltäsi
rizzeiltäsi
allative
rizzillesi
rizzeillesi
essive
rizzinäsi
rizzeinäsi
translative
rizziksesi
rizzeiksesi
abessive
rizzittäsi
rizzeittäsi
instructive
comitative
—rizzeinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
rizzimme
rizzimme
accusative
nom.
rizzimme
rizzimme
gen.
rizzimme
genitive
rizzimme
rizziemme
partitive
rizziämme
rizzejämme
inessive
rizzissämme
rizzeissämme
elative
rizzistämme
rizzeistämme
illative
rizziimme
rizzeihimme
adessive
rizzillämme
rizzeillämme
ablative
rizziltämme
rizzeiltämme
allative
rizzillemme
rizzeillemme
essive
rizzinämme
rizzeinämme
translative
rizziksemme
rizzeiksemme
abessive
rizzittämme
rizzeittämme
instructive
comitative
—rizzeinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
rizzinne
rizzinne
accusative
nom.
rizzinne
rizzinne
gen.
rizzinne
genitive
rizzinne
rizzienne
partitive
rizziänne
rizzejänne
inessive
rizzissänne
rizzeissänne
elative
rizzistänne
rizzeistänne
illative
rizziinne
rizzeihinne
adessive
rizzillänne
rizzeillänne
ablative
rizziltänne
rizzeiltänne
allative
rizzillenne
rizzeillenne
essive
rizzinänne
rizzeinänne
translative
rizziksenne
rizzeiksenne
abessive
rizzittänne
rizzeittänne
instructive
comitative
—rizzeinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
rizzinsä
rizzinsä
accusative
nom.
rizzinsä
rizzinsä
gen.
rizzinsä
genitive
rizzinsä
rizziensä
partitive
rizziään rizziänsä
rizzejään rizzejänsä
inessive
rizzissään rizzissänsä
rizzeissään rizzeissänsä
elative
rizzistään rizzistänsä
rizzeistään rizzeistänsä
illative
rizziinsä
rizzeihinsä
adessive
rizzillään rizzillänsä
rizzeillään rizzeillänsä
ablative
rizziltään rizziltänsä
rizzeiltään rizzeiltänsä
allative
rizzilleen rizzillensä
rizzeilleen rizzeillensä
essive
rizzinään rizzinänsä
rizzeinään rizzeinänsä
translative
rizzikseen rizziksensä
rizzeikseen rizzeiksensä
abessive
rizzittään rizzittänsä
rizzeittään rizzeittänsä
instructive
comitative
—rizzeineen rizzeinensä :

## Lombard
### Alternative forms

* riç
* risc (Milanese Classical Orthography)
* rés, réss (Brescian and Bergamasque orthographies)

### Etymology

From Latin ēricius.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrits/
** (Western) IPA: [ˈri(t)s]
** (Eastern) IPA: [ˈre(t)s], [ˈri(t)s], [ˈreʰ]
* IPA: /ˈriʃ/
** (Western) IPA: [ˈriʃ], [ˈris]
** (Eastern) IPA: [ˈres], [ˈris], [ˈreʰ]

### Noun

rizz m (invariable)
* hedgehog
* curl

### Adjective

rizz m (feminine rizza, masculine plural rizz, feminine plural rizze)
* curly
* frizzy (especially of hair)

## Swedish
### Noun

rizz c
* (slang) rizz
    Synonym: game

#### See also

* tjejtjusare

### References

* Slangopedia