4 letter words starting with Z

31 words

There are 31 4-letter words starting with Z in the ENABLE dictionary — under 1% of all 3,903 words at this length. Z is worth 10 points in Scrabble and there is only one of it in the bag, which is why it tends to sit on a rack for several turns. A 4-letter word is usually the fastest way to make it pay rather than keep waiting for a longer one.

The list divides into 5 groups by second letter, the largest being the 10 words with ze. Scanning the right group is faster than reading the whole list, which is why it is broken up below rather than run alphabetically.

If you know more than one letter, this page stops being the fast way to find it. Enter what you have in the unscrambler — the Contains, Starts with and Ends with filters combine, and setting both length fields to 4 narrows this list to the handful your letters actually allow.

All 31 words, by second letter

ZA… (4)

zags zany zaps zarf

ZE… (10)

zeal zebu zeds zees zein zeks zerk zero zest zeta

ZI… (8)

zigs zill zinc zing zins zips ziti zits

ZO… (8)

zoea zoic zone zonk zoom zoon zoos zori

ZY… (1)

zyme