English Words: Z
2,810 words · Page 1 of 57
The twenty-sixth letter of the English alphabet, called zed, zee or izzard and written in the Latin script.
A male given name from Hebrew, English vernacular form of Zacharias, Zachariah and Zechariah.
A priest, said to be descended from Eleazar the son of Aaron, who aided King David during the revolt of his son Absalom and was subsequently instrumental in bringing King Solomon to the throne.
A large business conglomerate founded under the Empire of Japan, generally controlled by a single family or individual.
Former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a country in Central Africa; used from 1971–1997.
Almsgiving, usually in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property which is then used for charitable purposes; the third of the five pillars of Islam.
An affluent district of central Cairo, Egypt, encompassing the northern portion of Gezira Island in the Nile river.
A river in Southern Africa, flowing south and west from Zambia through east Angola and Zambia and then east along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe into and through central Mozambique to the Indian Ocean.
A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Zambia. Formerly called Northern Rhodesia.
A European freshwater fish in the family Percidae, closely related to the perch, Sander lucioperca.
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The English alphabetical index for the letter Z contains 2,810 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 57 pages, and you are currently viewing page 1. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "Z" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.