zippo

Other forms of zippo

plural

zippoes·

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 zippo

What does zippo mean?

zippo means "a quantity of no importance".

How many syllables are in zippo?

zippo has 2 syllables: zip-po. The stress falls on "zip". In IPA it is /ˈzɪpoʊ/.

What is another word for zippo?

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 zippo a common word?

zippo is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.