Nil

//nɪl//

Synonyms for "nil" (18 found)

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Closest matches (4)

Strong matches (5)

Related words (9)

Related word relations

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6 relation types

Translations

28 translations across 22 languages.

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Bulgarian

2 entries
  • нищо noun (nothing)
  • нула noun (nothing)

Central Kurdish

1 entries
  • ھیچ noun (nothing)

Czech

2 entries
  • nic noun (nothing)
  • nula noun (zero (in sports))

Dutch

1 entries
  • nul noun (nothing)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • nenio noun (nothing)

Finnish

1 entries
  • nolla noun (nothing)

French

1 entries
  • zéro noun (zero (in sports))

Galician

2 entries
  • cero noun (zero (in sports))
  • nada noun (nothing)

German

1 entries
  • null noun (zero (in sports))

Hebrew

1 entries
  • כלום noun (nothing)

Hungarian

2 entries
  • null noun (nothing)
  • null noun (zero (in sports))

Japanese

1 entries
  • ニル noun (nothing)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • null noun (nothing)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries
  • null noun (nothing)

Plautdietsch

1 entries
  • nuscht noun (nothing)

Polish

1 entries
  • zero noun (nothing)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • nada noun (nothing)

Russian

2 entries
  • ничто́ noun (nothing)
  • ноль noun (nothing)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries
  • neoni noun (nothing)

Swedish

1 entries
  • noll noun (nothing)

Ukrainian

2 entries
  • нуль noun (zero (in sports))
  • нічого noun (nothing)

Welsh

1 entries
  • dim noun (zero (in sports))

Sample sentences

10 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

This means nil.

Source: tatoeba (56001)

I think it is certain that there is intelligent life in this universe, but the likelihood of that life coming to Earth is practically nil.

Source: tatoeba (329014)

You know of course that a mathematical line, a line of thickness nil, has no real existence.

Source: tatoeba (3719327)

Nilópolis is the smallest municipality in Rio de Janeiro State.

Source: tatoeba (9837380)

Showing 4 of 10 available sentences.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.