4 letter words with E and Z

Our dictionary holds 47 4 letter words with e and z, all exactly 4 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is MEZZ, worth 24 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with Z than any other letter — 19 of them, about 40% of the list.

8 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (17%), including size, zone, zero, maze, zeta; the remaining 39 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.