3 letter words with I and Z

Our dictionary holds 11 3 letter words with i and z, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is ZIZ, worth 21 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with Z than any other letter — 5 of them, about 45% of the list.

2 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (18%), including zip, biz; the remaining 9 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.