What Khalid really loved was the sizzle of bacon in the skillet.
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Sizzle
//ˈsɪzəl//
Synonyms for "sizzle" (118 found)
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7 entriesTranslations
59 translations across 24 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- цвърчене noun (the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
- цвъртя verb (to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
Catalan
1 entries- espurnejar verb (to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 噝噝作響 /咝咝作响 noun (the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
- 嘯 /啸 verb (to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
- 噝 /咝 verb (to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
- 噝 /咝 verb (to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
Czech
4 entries- poprask noun (zing, zip, or pizazz; excitement)
- rozruch noun (zing, zip, or pizazz; excitement)
- zasyčení noun (the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
- zasyčet verb (to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
Dutch
2 entries- sissen verb (to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
- zinderen verb (to be exciting or dazzling)
Finnish
4 entries- kihinä noun (the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
- sihinä noun (the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
- säpinä noun (zing, zip, or pizazz; excitement)
- kihistä verb (to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
French
3 entries- grésillement noun (the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
- grésiller noun (zing, zip, or pizazz; excitement)
- grésiller verb (to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
German
3 entries- Zischen noun (the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
- brutzeln verb (to cook in a manner which causes sizzling)
- zischen verb (to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
Hungarian
2 entries- sistergés noun (the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
- sistereg verb (to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
Ingrian
1 entries- sihissä verb (to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
Italian
2 entries- gorgogliare verb (to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
- sfrigolare verb (to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
Japanese
1 entries- シューシューいう音 noun (the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
Māori
2 entries- hihī noun (the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
- hihī verb (to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
Occitan
2 entries- bronzinar verb (to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
- grasilhar verb (to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
Polish
2 entries- skwierczenie noun (the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
- skwierczeć verb (to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
Portuguese
2 entries- chiado noun (the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
- chiar verb (to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
Russian
4 entries- шипе́ние noun (the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
- шкварча́ние noun (the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
- шипе́ть verb (to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
- шкварча́ть verb (to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- štrcati verb (to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
Slovak
2 entries- škvrčanie noun (the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
- škvrčať verb (to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
Slovene
4 entries- cvrčanje noun (the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
- sikanje noun (the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
- cvrčati verb (to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
- sikati verb (to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
Spanish
4 entries- chirriar noun (the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
- chirrido noun (zing, zip, or pizazz; excitement)
- chirriar verb (to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
- chisporrotear verb (to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
Turkish
2 entries- cızırdama noun (the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
- cızırdamak verb (to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
Ukrainian
1 entries- шкварча́ти verb (to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
Vietnamese
2 entries- tiếng xèo noun (the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
- xèo xèo verb (to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Sell the sizzle and not the steak.
Source: tatoeba (10891393)
I love hearing food sizzle.
Source: tatoeba (11535823)
I could hear the sizzle of the steak on Adriano's grill.
Source: tatoeba (11729702)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.