Words starting with ZY

Every word in the dictionary whose first 2 letters are ZY — 47 of 172,823.

Words
47
Everyday
0in the size-ranked core
Longest
13zygodactylous
Shortest
4zyme

What is in this list

The longest is zygodactylous at 13 letters.

They run from 4 to 13 letters; 14 of them have 7 letters, more than any other length.

None of them is in the everyday tier of the size-ranked list; these are words the spellers file as rarer.

Every one of them contains each of Y and Z.

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

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Other openings of 2 letters

Elsewhere

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