5 letter words with Z as the 2nd letter

Our dictionary holds 28 5 letter words with z as the 2nd letter, all exactly 5 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is PZAZZ, worth 34 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with A than any other letter — 17 of them, about 61% of the list.

1 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (4%), including ozone; the remaining 27 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.