ze
/ziː/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.06 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
2
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
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Nonstandard spelling of the, usually signifying a foreign accent, often French or German.
pron
a gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, equivalent to singular they, and coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
Example Sentences
- "Then one French-American sous-chef, still in his white kitchen gear, climbed down from the cockpit, where he had been inspecting the cabin, peering inside, murmuring, "wonderfool–wonderfool, ze workmansheep!""
- "At ze Palace of Beauxbatons, we ’ave ice sculptures all around ze Dining Chamber at Chreetsmas. Zey do not melt, of course … zey are like ’uge statues of diamond, glittering around ze place."
- "But I do know what sex ze is. It used to influence me. But now I talk to hir like a normal person. I mean, without thinking about what ze is."
- "A case in point is Tula, a transgendered woman who for years lived well as a model and actress until ze was outed in both national and international media."
- "Ze takes my right hand in hirs and folds it into a fist."
- "Ze changed hir name to one of those New Testament names, and re-fashioned hirself into a soft, puffy, half-finished hermaphrodite nicknamed, The Pop n' Fresh Doe."
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other attested gender-neutral pronouns