Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

zell

/zˈɛl/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.40 in modern English

Syllables: zell
IPA: /zˈɛl/

13

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Former name of Yell: an island, one of the Shetland islands.

name

Ellipsis of Zell am See, a town in Salzburg, Austria.

noun

Initialism of zero-length launch.

Example Sentences

"I hope I ſhall not greatly offend in alſo bringing to remembrance at this time, the miſchief and horrors that the French ſpread at Bengal, and the piercing ſcenes of woe which they baſely perpetrated at Zell, and how aſtoniſhingly furious they raged there with brutal madneſs, being ſo amazingly wanton and inhuman in their obſcenery and cruelties, […]"

Inflected Forms

ZELLs (plural)

Homonyms

zel

Rhymes With

well tell hell sell hotel cell fell bell el personnel nfl smell

Questions

How do you pronounce zell?: The recorded pronunciation is /zˈɛl/.
What does zell mean?: Former name of Yell: an island, one of the Shetland islands.

How to pronounce zell

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