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5-Letter Words Starting with ZA

There are 17 five-letter words that start with ZA on Word.ws, from zaddy to zazen. The most common are zaire, zaman, zahir, zakat and zahid.

Meanings from Wiktionary. Not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list.

All 17 five-letter words that start with ZA

  • zaddy19n. A handsome, fashionable man, especially an older man.
  • zahid18n. An ascetic.
  • zahir17n. The external or apparent meaning of the Qur'an.
  • zaire14n. The unit of currency of Zaire from 1967 to 1998.
  • zakat18n. Almsgiving, usually in the form of an annual tax on certain types of...
  • zamak20n. Any of a family of alloys with a zinc base and alloying elements of...
  • zaman16n. Albizia saman, a large tropical tree in the pea family.
  • zamia16n. Any of various cycads of the genera Zamia and Macrozamia.
  • zanja21n. An irrigation canal in Latin America.
  • zanza23n. A kind of thumb piano from Africa.
  • zappy21adj. Lively or energetic.
  • zarda15n. The flavoured tobacco used in paan.
  • zarka18n. A cantillation mark found in the Torah, Haftarah, and other books of...
  • zatch19n. The stomach.
  • zayat17n. A building in Myanmar used for meetings and religious assemblies and to...
  • zayde18n. Grandfather.
  • zazen23n. A form of seated meditation in Zen Buddhism.
11 rare five-letter words that start with ZA

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with ZA are there?
Word.ws lists 17 five-letter words that start with ZA, plus 11 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with ZA?
zaire, zaman, zahir, zakat, zahid, zazen, zappy and zaddy.
Which of the five-letter words that start with ZA has the highest letter score?
zazen scores 23 points with the standard letter tile values.

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Word lists and meanings adapted from the Wiktionary entry of each word. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out names, abbreviations, misspellings and offensive words, and ordered the most common words by how often they appear in English (wordfreq). Meanings from Wiktionary; this is not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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