6-letter words with O as the 3rd letter and Z as the 4th letter

The pattern is __OZ__, with O and Z locked together in the middle. The results range from familiar frozen to less everyday entries such as apozem and scozza. Only one match ranks among the commonest English words, so treat this as a precise clue list rather than a set of everyday vocabulary.

The pattern at a glance

• There are 18 six-letter matches across the tournament dictionaries counted here.
• The first letters B and C tie for the lead, with four words each.
• Six matches end in S, making that the most frequent final letter.
• Scozza scores 26 points; zoozoo follows at 24.

6-letter words with O as the 3rd letter and Z as the 4th letter

Collins includes all 18 matches, compared with 13 in NWL2023 and 12 in ENABLE. Those totals overlap: a word can appear in more than one dictionary, so do not add the counts together. Fourteen of the matches have definitions.

The opening letters show a tight split: boozer, boozed, boozes, and boozey start with B; crozer, crozes, coozes, and clozes start with C. G contributes three more: glozed, glozes, and gyozas. Frozen is the standout familiar example, while many of the remaining entries are uncommon.

That rarity matters in a board game. The full set is not automatically valid in every version of Scrabble, so check your game's word list before relying on an unfamiliar match.

Which matches score highest in Scrabble?

Scozza leads the scores at 26 points, and zoozoo reaches 24. Boozey scores 20; gyozas and apozem each score 19. These standout totals come from valuable letters, not from the words being common. Frozen and boozed both score 18.