5 letter words starting with Z

Every 5-letter word in the dictionary that opens with Z — 51 of the 8,636 words of this length.

Words
51
Everyday
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Longest
551 words tie
Shortest
551 words tie

What is in this list

Every one of them has 5 letters.

7 of them — 14% — are in the everyday tier; the rest are filed as rarer.

Every one of them contains an Z.

The one furthest down the tiers is zanza, filed in the unranked list.

Other openings at 5 letters

Z at other lengths, and 5 letters by ending

Ordered everyday words first, then alphabetical inside each group — the same rule on every list here. At most 300 are printed on one page.