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Z, or z, is the twenty-sixth and last letter of the Latin alphabet. It is used in the modern English alphabet , in the alphabets of other Western European languages, and in others worldwide. Its usual names in English are zed ( / ˈ z ɛ d / ), which is most commonly used in British English and zee ( / ˈ z iː / ), most commonly used in North ...
X; Z; Z. Root Meaning in English Origin language Etymology (root origin) English examples ze-[1] boil: Greek:
Ź (minuscule: ź) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from Z with the addition of an acute accent. The letter appears in Polish, Montenegrin, Lower Sorbian, Upper Sorbian, Emiliano-Romagnolo, Wymysorys and Brahui, as well as in the Belarusian Latin alphabet, Ukrainian Latin alphabet and romanized Pashto.
In the Polish language, ż is the final, 32nd letter of the alphabet. It typically represents the voiced retroflex fricative ( [ʐ] ), somewhat similar to the pronunciation of g in "mira g e"; however, in a word-final position or when followed by a voiceless obstruent, it is devoiced to the voiceless retroflex fricative ( [ʂ] ).
Later, probably during the 3rd century BC, the letter Z – not needed to write Latin properly – was replaced with the new letter G , a C modified with a small vertical stroke, which took its place in the alphabet.
X is the third least frequently used letter in English (after q and z ), with a frequency of about 0.15% in words. [4] There are very few English words that start with x (the fewest of any letter).
It is the 20th letter of the Estonian alphabet, where it is used in loan words. It is the 22nd letter of the Karelian and Veps alphabets. It is the 29th letter of the Northern Sami alphabet, where it represents . It is regarded as a variant of Z in Finnish.
This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends that begin with the letter Z.. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as if it were a word, e.g., SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome, pronounced to rhyme with cars