This list contains 36 real five-letter words that end in Z. Examples include ABUZZ, ARROZ, ASSEZ, BANTZ, BLITZ, BORTZ.
Generated from the bundled NYT Crossplay, Words With Friends, Scrabble US, Scrabble UK, and All Dictionaries data.
5 Letter Words Ending in Z Results
Words below end in Z.
How to use this word list
36 five-letter words end in Z, and it’s a genuinely varied bunch. A few are everyday English (BLITZ, WALTZ, TOPAZ), several are loanwords from French, Spanish, Russian, or Arabic (ASSEZ, ARROZ, SOYUZ, NAMAZ, HAFIZ), and the rest lean informal, slang from British and Australian English (BANTZ, SQUIZ, WAREZ) alongside doubled-Z words that read almost onomatopoeically (WHIZZ, FRIZZ, ABUZZ, PZAZZ). With Z worth 10 points on its own, this list also has some of the highest-scoring five-letter words on the whole site.
Questions about this list
Only the fifth letter is fixed at Z. That’s the only rule, so this list mixes common English words with loanwords and slang, as long as the final letter is Z.
Z is one of the least common letters in English, so many five-letter words that end in it are borrowed from other languages (ASSEZ from French, ARROZ from Spanish, SOYUZ from Russian) or come from informal slang (BANTZ, SQUIZ, WAREZ).
Yes. They’re valid entries in word-game dictionaries, even though several started as slang or loanwords, they’ve been accepted into Scrabble and Words With Friends word lists.
PZAZZ tops the list at 34 points, thanks to three Z’s. WHIZZ follows at 29, and SWIZZ and FRIZZ tie at 26.
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