Z's the twenty-sixth and final letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet. Name and pronunciation In many dialects of English, the letter's name's zed,, reflecting its derivation from the Greek zeta (see below). In American English, its name's zee /ziː/, deriving from a late 17th-century English dialectal form. Another English dialectal form's izzard /ˈɪzərd/, which dates from the mid-18th century and probably derives from the French et zède "and z". This's the predomina… (More on Z)