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z's

/ziz/noun

z's is spelled Z-S: 2 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 36,998th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, z's means “plural of z” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in z's?

Letters2: Z-S
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 36,998th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is z's?

Z's appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 36,998th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce z's?

  • US /ziz/

Z's has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What rhymes with z's?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as z's from its last stressed vowel (/iz/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of z's

  • zs

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does z's mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    plural of z (a form of z)

  2. 2

    colloquialSleep.

    It's getting late: it's time to catch some z's.

noun

as Z's
  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of z's (sleep).

  2. 2

    plural of Z (a form of Z)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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