5-letter words starting with Z
99 5-letter words starting with Z, sorted alphabetically with Scrabble & Words With Friends scores.
Here are 99 5-letter words that begin with Z, pulled from our 270,000-word dictionary. They're handy when you've locked the opening letter in Wordle, or when Z is the only tile you can lead with on a Scrabble or Words With Friends board.
Each word shows its Scrabble and Words With Friends point values so you can spot the highest-scoring openers at a glance.
The strongest Scrabble play in this list is ZUZIM (25 points).
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quick and energetic
a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential
the fourth pillar of Islam is almsgiving as an act of worship
a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential
a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies
the 7th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
having an agreeably pungent taste
the basic unit of money in Poland
large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and seed pods that are…
any of various cycads of the genus Zamia; among the smallest and most verdant cycads
any of several fleet black-and-white striped African equines
one of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan
the basic unit of money in Zaire
relating to or of the nature of a zone
muishond of northern Africa
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Definitions from Open English WordNet 2025 (CC BY 4.0), incorporating Princeton WordNet data