zelez
Zelez is not a standard English term. In linguistic and encyclopedic contexts it is used as an anglicized, diacritic-free rendering of the Slavic root for iron. The native spellings across major Slavic languages differ: železo in Czech and Slovak, železo in Slovene, żelazo in Polish, железо in Russian, залізо in Ukrainian, and željezo in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian. The form without diacritics may appear in transliterations or historical texts.
These forms share a common meaning: iron, the metallic element. The root also underlies many related terms
In scientific and general discourse, the metal is typically referred to by the English word iron, with
Because zelez is primarily a linguistic or transliteration form, it is unlikely to be used as a