6-letter words starting with Z
145 6-letter words starting with Z, sorted alphabetically with Scrabble & Words With Friends scores.
Here are 145 6-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 ZUZZIM (35 points).
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an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions
a slight wind (usually refreshing)
music of southern Louisiana that combines French dance melodies with Caribbean music and blues
the slender arch formed by the temporal process of the cheekbone that bridges to the zygomatic process of the temporal bone
resembling an enzyme
a complex of enzymes that cause glycolysis; originally found in yeast but also present in higher organisms
(of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous
an electrical device that can injure or kill by means of electric currents
a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab
(of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous
a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force
(genetics) the diploid cell resulting from the union of a haploid spermatozoon and ovum (including the organism that develops from that…
large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and seed pods that are…
the point above the observer that is directly opposite the nadir on the imaginary sphere against which celestial bodies appear to be…
preceding even the first
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Definitions from Open English WordNet 2025 (CC BY 4.0), incorporating Princeton WordNet data