Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

fizz

/fɪz/ noun, verb

Forms fizzes fizzing fizzed

noun An emission of a rapid stream of bubbles. “I poured a cola and waited for the fizz to settle down before topping off the glass.”
noun The sound of such an emission. “Evan sat back in the hot tub and listened to the relaxing fizz and pops produced by the eruption of bubbles.”
noun A carbonated beverage, especially champagne. “Nathan ordered an orange fizz from the soda jerk at the counter.”
verb (intransitive) To emit bubbles.
verb (intransitive) To make a rapid hissing or bubbling sound.
verb (intransitive) To shoot or project something at great velocity.

Synonyms

Onomatopoeia.

Etymology [Cf. Icel. fisa to break wind, Dan. fise to foist, fizzle, OSw. fisa, G. fisten, feisten. Cf. Foist.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “fizz”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details