4 letter words with Z as the 3rd letter

Our dictionary holds 59 4 letter words with z as the 3rd letter, all exactly 4 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is ZIZZ, worth 31 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with M than any other letter — 9 of them, about 15% of the list.

9 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (15%), including size, jazz, buzz, lazy, nazi; the remaining 50 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.