7-letter words with Z as the 3rd letter and T as the 6th letter

7-letter words with Z third and T sixth have 11 matches, including gazette and bizjets.

11 wordsTop pick GAZETTEHighest score BIZJETS 25

1 of 11 are everyday words (9%). Mostly rare words: great for Scrabble, tough for daily puzzles.

With Z in 3rd place, E is the most common 6th letter (77 words). The bar under each letter shows the size of its list.

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Best words to play first 11 · most-used first

  • GAZETTE17
  • BEZANTS18
  • HAZMATS21
  • DOZENTH20
  • BIZJETS25
  • BYZANTS21
  • MAZOUTS18
  • MOZETTA18
  • MOZETTE18
  • PEZANTS18
  • SIZISTS16
All valid words 11

A to Z. Includes rare and Collins-only words. Linked tiles open the word's meaning, score and rhymes.

  • BEZANTS18
  • BIZJETS25
  • BYZANTS21
  • DOZENTH20
  • GAZETTE17
  • HAZMATS21
  • MAZOUTS18
  • MOZETTA18
  • MOZETTE18
  • PEZANTS18
  • SIZISTS16

Highest-scoring words

Scrabble and Words With Friends points, before board bonuses
WordScrabbleWords With FriendsDictionaries
BIZJETS2528NWL only
HAZMATS2121Collins · NWL
BYZANTS2122All three
DOZENTH2020All three
BEZANTS1820All three
MOZETTA1819All three
MOZETTE1819All three
MAZOUTS1820Collins only
PEZANTS1820Collins only
GAZETTE1718All three
SIZISTS1616Collins only

The fixed pattern leaves just 11 tournament-dictionary words, and their endings are strikingly lopsided: seven finish in S. Gazette is the only entry tagged common. The rest include less familiar forms such as bezants, hazmats and dozenth, so the letter positions narrow the search more than everyday vocabulary does.

The pattern at a glance

  • Eleven words fit Z in position three and T in position six.
  • Gazette is the sole entry tagged common.
  • Seven words end in S; two end in E.
  • Bizjets leads the scoring list at 25 points.

7-letter words with Z third and T sixth

Gazette is the familiar outlier among the 11 matches; the other ten are not tagged common. The opening letters are more varied than the endings: B and M each start three words, while D, G, H, P and S each start one. A known first letter among those five therefore points to a single word.

The S-ending group includes bezants, hazmats, bizjets, byzants, mazouts, pezants and sizists. Gazette and mozette end in E, mozetta in A and dozenth in H. If the final tile is S, compare the seven options; an E ending narrows play to gazette or mozette.

Which matches score the most?

Bizjets tops the scoring list at 25 points. Hazmats and byzants tie at 21, followed by dozenth at 20; bezants, mozetta, mozette, mazouts and pezants each score 18. Gazette scores 17, and the group averages 19.1 points.

The source counts are 6 in ENABLE, 10 in Collins and 8 in NWL2023; those dictionaries overlap, so their counts are not separate piles of words. Check your game's word list before playing an unfamiliar entry, especially a form such as sizists.

Questions people ask

How many words have Z third and T sixth?
There are 11 seven-letter matches in the combined tournament-dictionary count. Gazette, bezants and hazmats are among them. The fixed positions make this a much narrower search than browsing all seven-letter words, but most matches are uncommon.
Which word matching this pattern scores highest?
Bizjets is the top scorer at 25 points. Hazmats and byzants follow at 21 points each, with dozenth at 20. Those values put the unusual Z-containing forms ahead of familiar gazette, which scores 17.
Which matching words end in S?
Seven matches end in S: bezants, hazmats, bizjets, byzants, mazouts, pezants and sizists. That makes S the leading final letter for this pattern. The other four endings are split between E, A and H.

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