Naught means nothing at all. Come to naught, all for naught, set at naught.
It survives in fixed phrases and sounds deliberately archaic anywhere else. Nought with an o is the British spelling for the digit zero, and naught with an a is the word meaning nothing — the two are the same word split by spelling.
1nounnaughtNothing at all.
“Their years of planning were all for naught when the storm destroyed the harvest.”
naught is nothing.
Also accepted in games: zilch
Old English nawiht means no thing — na, no, plus wiht, a thing or creature.
Old English
nawiht
Middle English
naught
English, today
naught
From the Middle English naught, nought, naht, nawiht, from Old English nawiht. Cognate with West Frisian neat (“nothing, naught”). a doublet of nought. Equivalent to ne + aught.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA