4 letter words with A and Z

Our dictionary holds 42 4 letter words with a and z, all exactly 4 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is JAZZ, worth 29 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with Z than any other letter — 15 of them, about 36% of the list.

7 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (17%), including jazz, lazy, nazi, maze, zeta; the remaining 35 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.