Complete list of 12 three-letter words that start with Z.
The words come from the ENABLE word list (972 three-letter words), the open dictionary that many word games, including Words With Friends, are based on. Official Scrabble dictionaries accept nearly all of them but can differ slightly.
There are 12 three-letter words that start with Z. The words come from the ENABLE word list (972 three-letter words), the open dictionary that many word games, including Words With Friends, are based on. Official Scrabble dictionaries accept nearly all of them but can differ slightly.
The letters that most often follow Z are I (4), A (3), E (3) and O (2). The biggest groups are words beginning with ZI-, ZA- and ZE-, so if you know the second letter you can jump straight to that group in the list above.
Using standard Scrabble tile values (before bonus squares), the highest-scoring well-known words here are ZIP (14 points), ZIG (13 points), ZED (13 points), ZOO (12 points), ZEE (12 points). Z itself is worth 10 points. To search by the exact tiles on your rack, use the word finder or the anagram solver.