3 letter words with Z as the 3rd letter

Our dictionary holds 23 3 letter words with z as the 3rd letter, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is ZZZ, worth 30 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with C than any other letter — 3 of them, about 13% of the list.

2 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (9%), including biz, cuz; the remaining 21 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.