Z

How to type it

Left pinky; hold Shift for the capital. Introduced in Lesson 15: Bottom row: z and /.

Common uses

• Z is among the rarest letters in English text.
• Americans say zee, while most English speakers elsewhere say zed.

Less common uses

• The Romans dropped Z for a time, then added it back at the end of the alphabet to spell Greek loan words.
• In three-dimensional coordinates, z is the name of the third axis.