4 letter words with no vowels

Our dictionary holds 48 4 letter words with no vowels, all exactly 4 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is ZZZS, worth 31 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with S than any other letter — 8 of them, about 17% of the list.

5 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (10%), including sync, myth, lynx, gyms, hymn; the remaining 43 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.