What is the answer to the crossword clue "pizzazz"?

There is more than one. 3 words in our dictionary fit this clue, and which one a puzzle wants depends on the length of the slot and the crossing letters. Four squares is ZING and five is OOMPH, and between them they cover most grids this clue appears in. Both are twentieth-century American coinages and both sound like what they describe.

How many letters is the answer to "pizzazz"?

Anything from 4 to 8. The length with the most candidates is 4. Count the squares in your grid and read only that row of the table.

Crossword clue

Pizzazz crossword clue

3 words in our dictionary can answer the crossword clue "pizzazz", from 4 letters up to 8, grouped below by the length of your slot.

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Answers by length

Read the row that matches your slot. ZING is the shortest answer here and DYNAMISM the longest.

Letters	Answers
4	zingconfirmed by two sources
5	oomph
8	dynamism

What this list looks like

At 4 letters you have ZING, and short answers like these turn up far more often than their share of the dictionary suggests.

Which one does the setter mean?

Four squares is ZING and five is OOMPH, and between them they cover most grids this clue appears in. Both are twentieth-century American coinages and both sound like what they describe.

How these differ

ZING is energy with a sharp edge to it, the sound of something moving fast, and transfers to flavour as easily as to personality. OOMPH is heavier and more physical, closer to force or sex appeal than to sparkle. DYNAMISM is the same quality described by someone writing a report about it. Pizzazz itself was reputedly invented at Harper's Bazaar in the 1930s and has never had a settled spelling.

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Where these answers come from

These came out of a dictionary. Every word above is recorded by WordNet as meaning “pizzazz” or as naming a kind of it, and each one is in the 173,000-wordlist this site searches. Moby Thesaurus lists 1 of them too. We hold no newspaper's answer key and reproduce no published crossword.

Common questions

What is the answer to the crossword clue "pizzazz"?: There is more than one. 3 words in our dictionary fit this clue, and which one a puzzle wants depends on the length of the slot and the crossing letters. Four squares is ZING and five is OOMPH, and between them they cover most grids this clue appears in. Both are twentieth-century American coinages and both sound like what they describe.
How many letters is the answer to "pizzazz"?: Anything from 4 to 8. The length with the most candidates is 4. Count the squares in your grid and read only that row of the table.