# rizz

Pronunciation: say "RIZ" /ˈɹɪz/

## Noun

1. The ability to attract a romantic interest through charm or personal appeal. *(slang)*
   - Simple: The natural charm that lets a person attract someone they like.
   - _His easy confidence and quick wit are pure rizz._
   - _Landing a date that smoothly takes real rizz._

## Verb

2. To attract or seduce a romantic interest through charm and flirtation. *(slang)*
   - Simple: To win over someone you find attractive by being charming or smooth.
   - _He spent the whole night trying to rizz a girl he met at the show._
   - _She completely rizzed her crush with a single confident text._

## Other meanings

- (noun) A quantity of rolling paper, especially of the Rizla+ brand.

## Origin

Kai Cenat, a YouTuber and Twitch streamer, or one of his close friends, came up with the word around May 2021. TikTok made it popular in 2022, and it kept spreading through 2023, the year Oxford University Press picked it as Word of the Year. Many people link it to 'charisma', but Cenat has said it is not a shortened form of that word.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/rizz (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).