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Definition: Zilch |
ZilchNoun1. A quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: ZilchSynonyms: aught (n), cipher (n), cypher (n), goose egg (n), nada (n), naught (n), nil (n), nix (n), nothing (n), null (n), zero (n), zip (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Zero | Noun: zero, nothing; null, nul, naught, nought, void; cipher, goose egg; none, nobody, no one; nichts, nixie, nix; zilch, zip, zippo; not a soul; ame qui vive; absence; unsubstantiality. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Zilch |
| English words defined with "zilch": aught ♦ cipher, cypher ♦ goose egg ♦ nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null ♦ zero, zip. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | King Zilch (1933) Zilch (2002) Zilch! (1989) | |
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| "Zilch" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 73.33% of the time. "Zilch" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 73.33% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 13.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 13.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
zilch | 35 |
dice game zilch | 4 |
rule zilch | 2 |
lyrics zilch | 2 |
joy mccoola zilch | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "zilch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | hiç (naught, nil, Nix, nobody, nothing, nought, ought, zero). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | æ¯«æ— ç"Ÿæ°". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | nul (naught, nought, null, zero). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | nul (naught, nought, null, zero), nihil (naught, nil, nothing, nought, null, zero). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | nulo (naught, nought, null, zero). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | null (naught, nought, null, zero), einki (naught, neither, no, nobody, none, no-one, nothing, nought, null, zero). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | zéro, haricots. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Null (dead loss, naught, nil, nonentity, nothing, nought, null, nullo, o, zero). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | semmi (any, aught, beans, diddly, diddly-squat, eff all, nae, naught, nil, Nix, none, not any, nothing, nothingness, nought, ought, sod all, to be no hope of sg, vacancy, zero). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | null (naught, nought, null, zero). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ilchzay zero (naught, nought, null, zero). (various references) zero (cipher, cypher, naught, nil, nonentity, nothing, nought, null, o, ought, pressmark, zero), nada (anything, damn, iota, naught, nil, nix, none, not an ace, nothing, nothingness, nought, null, ought, zero). (various references) ноль (nil, nothing, nought, zero), ничто (naught, negation, none, nothing, nought, o, ought, the negative sign). (various references) nolla (cipher, dummy, lemon, naught, nought, null, squirt, zero), noll (duck, duck's egg, love, naught, nil, nought, zero). (various references) ไม่มีà¸à¸°à¹„รเลย. (various references) sifir (naught, nought, null, zero), hiç (any, at all, aught, by any means, ever, far from, least of all, nary, naught, ne'er, never, nil, Nix, no, no whit, none, not a dreg, not a whit, not an iota, not at all, not exactly, not in the least, nothing, nought, null, nullity, ought, whatever, whatsoever, zero), bir hiç olan kimse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "zilch": zilches. (additional references) | |
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"Zilch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Diolch, Ilych, swilch, sylch, wilch, zic, Zihl, zil, zilah, zilk, zils, zilt, zilth, zinch, zirc, zirch, zitch, zulk. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "zilch" (pronounced zi"lkh) |
| 3 | -i" l kh | filch, milch. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-i-l-z" | |
-1 letter: lich. | |
-2 letters: chi, hic, ich. | |
-3 letters: hi, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-i-l-z" | |
+2 letters: zilches. | |
+3 letters: chalazia, holozoic, hylozoic. | |
+4 letters: alchemize, chalazion, chalutzim, schnitzel, zoophilic. | |
+5 letters: alchemized, alchemizes, chalazions, channelize, coleorhiza, schmalzier, schnitzels. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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