naught

Other forms of naught

plural

naughts·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about naught

What does naught mean?

naught means "a quantity of no importance". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in naught?

naught has 1 syllable: naught. In IPA it is /ˈnɔt/.

What is another word for naught?

Close synonyms include nothing, nil, nix, nada, null. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is naught a common word?

naught is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with naught?

4 words rhyme with naught. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.