7-letter words with L as the 2nd letter and Z as the 4th letter

The pattern is _L_Z___: the second tile must be L and the fourth Z. The matches range from familiar forms such as BLAZING and GLAZING to KLEZMER and ALIZARI. Only two rank among the commonest words, so this is a clue-first search rather than a set of everyday vocabulary.

At a glance: ten matches, led by G and B

• Ten tournament-dictionary words fit the _L_Z___ pattern.
• Five begin with G, while three begin with B; A and K contribute one each.
• Three end in G and three in S; R appears twice at the end.
• Only two entries are common, and eight have definitions.
• Collins includes all ten; NWL2023 has nine and ENABLE has eight.

7-letter words with L as the 2nd letter and Z as the 4th letter

KLEZMER tops the Scrabble scores at 22 points, followed by GLAZILY at 20 and BLAZING at 19. The Z in the fourth position drives much of the scoring value, even when the rest of the word uses familiar letters.

Dictionary coverage is not identical: Collins accepts all ten matches, NWL2023 accepts nine, and ENABLE accepts eight. Check your game's word list before playing; a word accepted in one tournament lexicon may not work in another.

How this pattern compares with nearby clues

The L-and-Z combination is unusually selective. With L still second, changing the fourth letter to N yields 146 matches, and changing it to S yields 126. The six-letter version of this exact pattern has 12 matches, so adding a seventh tile barely changes the size of the set.

Try the examples by shape: BLAZING and GLAZING end in G, while BLAZERS and GLAZERS end in S. That shared ending makes the pairs easy to compare when a crossing tile narrows your choices.