how to pronounce zilch

/zɪltʃ/

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the above transcription of zilch is a detailed (narrow) transcription according to the rules of the International Phonetic Association; you can find a description of each symbol by clicking the phoneme buttons in the secction below.

zilch is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of zilch in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… Joe zilch and dud as for us we prefer …”

meaning of zilch

Zilch is a word that means nothing.

zilch frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word zilch occurs in english on average 0.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics zilch can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that zilch can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;