Z

Examples

• All

• Then, in 1983, the W and Z particles were discovered at CERN.

  Academic text (1999)

• At this point, we have established that the letter Z is the note E above middle C.

  Academic text (1998)

• No clear examples of particles with Z greater than 83 have been found.

  Academic text (1990)

• The stimuli are P, T, C, B, D, V, Z, key, knee, and me.

  Academic text (2012)

• I'll mobilize the whole Z-Patrol to stop you.

  Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 (2022)

• Your contact is Z

  The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair (1983)

• In the English alphabet, the last letter is Z.

• Can you write the letter Z in cursive for me?

• The word 'zebra' begins with the letter Z.

Synonyms

Z

zee

vsZ

• US

37 9.9

The name Americans use for the letter Z

covers both American and British spoken names for the same character

Z

zed

vsZ

• UK

26 9.9

The name British people use for the letter Z

also lists the American spoken name alongside the British one

Z

z

vsZ

18 6.8

The last letter of the English alphabet

notes the same meaning but adds American and British pronunciations

I

izzard

vsZ

• Archaic

1 9.9

An old name for the letter Z in English

is the modern standard naming using current regional pronunciations

E

ezed

vsZ

• UK

9.9

A Scottish name for the letter Z in the alphabet

is the common American and British names rather than regional Scottish form

Compounds

Z

z-fold

• Specialized

8.8

A way of bending paper to make a zigzag shape like an accordion, often used in brochures and maps

Surface Forms

Etymology