Words that end in Z

What is in this list

This list holds 80 words, under 0.1% of the 172,634 words this site keeps from the ENABLE word list. They run from 3 to 11 letters, and the most common length is 4 letters with 19 words (23.8% of the list). The shortest are ADZ, BIZ, COZ, FEZ, FIZ and LEZ; the longest are RAZZAMATAZZ and WELTSCHMERZ. Of the 12 lists in this group it is the 9th largest: “words that end in ED” leads with 13,318 and “words that end in J” has the fewest, 7. 1 word that would also fit was left out by this site's blocklist of slurs and explicit words.

Points and vowels

Using this site's letter values, the average word here scores 18.9 points (median 17); words of the same lengths across the whole list average 10.4, so this list runs 8.4 points richer. The top scorers are RAZZAMATAZZ (41), RAZZMATAZZ (40), BEZAZZ (30), PAZAZZ (29). Point for point, JAZZ earns the most per letter: 27 points over 4 letters, 6.8 each. Z itself is worth 8 points here, which is why so many of these words outscore their length.

Vowels (A, E, I, O, U) make up 28.1% of the letters, against 38% across the whole list.

How the words are built

The letter just before the final Z is most often T (42.5% of words), followed by Z (17.5%). 20 words have a doubled letter (25%); the most common doubles are ZZ (16), BB (2), EE (2). The most common three-letter openings are SCH- (4, as in SCHMALTZ), FRI- (3, as in FRITZ), KIB- (3, as in KIBBITZ).

Word play in this list

No two words in this list are anagrams of each other. The longest word with no letter repeated is KILOHERTZ (9 different letters). RAZZAMATAZZ is the longest word here that uses only one kind of vowel, ahead of WELTSCHMERZ.

0% of these words take an S on the end and stay a word; after S, the most useful end letter is Y, which extends 19 words. At the front, A turns one word into a new one (BUZZ → ABUZZ); C turns one word into a new one (HALUTZ → CHALUTZ); F turns one word into a new one (RITZ → FRITZ).

Using this list

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