5 Letter Words With Z
Here are all 111 5 letter words with Z, from a standard word-game dictionary, with everyday words first. 14 of them are common words; the rest are rarer but still valid in most word games. Use the Wordle helper to add the letters you know.
Most of these words start with Z, G, D. Good picks with five different letters include crazy, prize, dozen, sized.
- Words found
- 111
- Most used
- crazy
- Most common first letter
- Z
Wordle helper: 5 letter words with Z
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Common 5 letter words with Z
| # | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | crazy | affected with madness or insanity |
| 2 | prize | something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery |
| 3 | pizza | Italian open pie made of thin bread dough spread with a spiced mixture of e.g. tomato sauce and cheese |
| 4 | dozen | the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one |
| 5 | sized | having a specified size |
| 6 | sizes | the physical magnitude of something (how big it is) |
| 7 | zones | a locally circumscribed place characterized by some distinctive features |
| 8 | plaza | a public square with room for pedestrians |
| 9 | seize | take hold of; grab |
| 10 | razor | edge tool used in shaving |
| 11 | blaze | a strong flame that burns brightly |
| 12 | fuzzy | covering with fine light hairs |
| 13 | blitz | (American football) defensive players try to break through the offensive line |
| 14 | hazel | of a light brown or yellowish brown color |
| 15 | dizzy | having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling |
| 16 | froze | stop moving or become immobilized |
| 17 | ozone | a colorless gas (O3) soluble in alkalis and cold water |
| 18 | zebra | any of several fleet black-and-white striped African equines |
| 19 | waltz | an assured victory (especially in an election) |
| 20 | azure | a light shade of blue |
| 21 | craze | an interest followed with exaggerated zeal |
| 22 | maize | tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties |
| 23 | glaze | coat with a glaze |
| 24 | amaze | affect with wonder |
| 25 | zoned | regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns |
| 26 | dazed | in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock |
| 27 | hertz | the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second |
| 28 | zeros | a quantity of no importance |
| 29 | graze | feed as in a meadow or pasture |
| 30 | jazzy | resembling jazz (especially in its rhythm) |
| 31 | gauze | (medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings |
| 32 | zaire | the basic unit of money in Zaire |
| 33 | topaz | a yellow quartz |
| 34 | gazed | look at with fixed eyes |
| 35 | fizzy | hissing and bubbling |
| 36 | bezel | a sloping edge on a cutting tool |
| 37 | gonzo | conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual |
| 38 | lazar | a person afflicted with leprosy |
| 39 | razed | tear down so as to make flat with the ground |
| 40 | zonal | relating to or of the nature of a zone |
5 letter words with z, by first letter
A (4)
- azure
- amaze
- abuzz
- azide
B (9)
- blaze
- blitz
- bezel
- bazar
- boozy
- bozos
- braze
- baize
- bortz
C (5)
- crazy
- craze
- czars
- cloze
- cozen
D (9)
- dozen
- dizzy
- dazed
- dozed
- doozy
- dozer
- ditzy
- diazo
- dozes
F (9)
- fuzzy
- fritz
- froze
- fizzy
- frizz
- fazed
- furze
- fuzes
- fazes
G (12)
- glaze
- graze
- gauze
- gazed
- gonzo
- ghazi
- glitz
- gazes
- gizmo
- gauzy
- grosz
- gazer
H (7)
- hazel
- hertz
- hamza
- hafiz
- hazed
- hazan
- hazes
J (1)
- jazzy
K (3)
- kazoo
- kudzu
- klutz
L (1)
- lazar
M (8)
- maize
- mirza
- mazes
- mezzo
- matzo
- muzzy
- mazer
- mizen
N (1)
- nizam
O (3)
- ozone
- oozes
- oozed
P (4)
- prize
- pizza
- plaza
- plotz
R (4)
- razor
- razer
- razed
- ritzy
S (6)
- sized
- sizes
- seize
- soyuz
- spitz
- sizer
T (3)
- topaz
- tizzy
- tazza
U (1)
- unzip
W (3)
- waltz
- whizz
- woozy
Z (18)
- zones
- zebra
- zoned
- zeros
- zaire
- zonal
- zooms
- zippy
- zilch
- zetas
- zesty
- zloty
- zazen
- zowie
- zingy
- zombi
- zings
- zappy
More 5 letter word lists
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Questions people ask
How many 5 letter words with Z are there?
This list has 111, taken from a standard word-game dictionary and limited to words seen in real English text.
What are common 5 letter words with Z?
crazy, prize, pizza, dozen, sized, sizes, zones, plaza.
Which 5 letter words with Z are good Wordle guesses?
crazy, prize, dozen, sized, zones, blaze use five different letters, so each guess tests more of the alphabet.
Source: the ENABLE word list (a public-domain dictionary used for word games), ranked by how often each word appears in English text (the open wordfreq project), with short meanings from Princeton WordNet. Offensive words are left out.