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"Z" /z/ – Voiced Alveolar Fricative - by syllable & position  → Download /z/ Word List (PDF)

Words with /z/ sound at the beginning

One syllable words:

• zee (Z), zone, zing, zoo, zap, zoom, zed, zinc, zip

Two syllable words:

• zig zag, zipper, zero, zip code, zany, zebra, zebu, zither, zombie, zoom lens, zippy

Three or more syllable words:

• xylophone, zebrawood, zucchini, zoo keeper, zeppelin, zinnia

Words with /z/ sound in the middle

One syllable words:

• closed

Two syllable words:

• cheesecake, result, resort, desert, dessert, gazette, raising, snoozing, sneezing, resound, Thursday, Tuesday, Wednesday, rosebud, zig zag, jazzman, newsstand, Basil, bazaar, kazoo, cuisine, enzyme, gazelle, present, brazil, blizzard, lizard, wizard, poser, dozer, eavesdrop, rosebush, design, causal, nozzle, enzymes, pansy, tansy, chisel, exam, closet, posit, cousin, dozen, crimson, deserve, observe, preserve, reserve, daisy, crazy, hazy, lazy, dizzy, busy, fizzy, tizzy, exist, resist, freezer, squeezer, Caesar, fuzzy, muzzy, husband, visor, riser, Kaiser, music, Aztec, noisy, thousand, pheasant, pretzel, prism, ism, prison, puzzle, guzzle, muzzle, nuzzle, raisin, blazon, razor, laser, scissors, season, reason, treason, resolve, dissolve, trouser, browser, Kansas, tweezers

Three or more syllable words:

• grizzly bear, translator, observing, Arizona, cosmonaut, transaction, newspaper, Louisiana, amazon, magazine, president, raspberry, rosemary, resister, resistor, transistor, parmesan cheese, bulldozer, composer, chimpanzee, horizon, citizen, senior citizen, opposite, composite, deposit, clothespin, hazelnut, chromosome, x chromosome, y chromosome, Raisin Bran, musician, physician, position, resistance, enthusiastic, lemon squeezer, observation post, garbanzo, gazebo, nasal cavity, horizontal, incisor, divisor, advisor, observatory, museum, positive, New Brunswick, positive, autism, racism, tourism, aphorism, mechanism, organism, astigmatism, residence, rosehip, shelves  Ourselves, vuvuzela, Missouri, New Jersey, health hazard, oxidizer, biohazard

Words with /z/ sound at the end

One syllable words:

• vase, blaze, raise, chaise, days, fraise, gaze, glaze, lays, maize, maze, pays, phrase, rays, raze, ways, stays, Cloves, jeans, beans, breeze, bees, cheese, fees, freeze, keys, knees, please, sees, sneeze, squeeze, tease, trees, these, bruise, blues, booze, choose, cruise, cruse, cues, fuse, lose, moos, muse, news, screws, shoes, snooze, whose, views, buzz, does, fuzz, cries, eyes, flies, fries, guys, lies, pies, prize, rise, size, spies, ties, tries, wise, chimes, fins, twins, chose, doze, froze, goes, hose, knows, lows, nose, pose, pros, prose, rose, shows, toes, throws, those, throes, leaves, pause, clause, jaws, laws, paws, cause, was, quiz, biz, fizz, his, is, wiz, suds, duds, theirs, chairs, bears, hairs, pairs, shares, stairs, pens, tens, Mars

Two syllable words:

• hands free, always, drawer trays, blue jays, use (vb), use (noun), swans weep, sales clerk, turquoise, daydreams, rose shrub, two sides, braces, faces, traces, cases, bases, cream cheese, Chinese, deep freeze, Swiss cheese, mac cheese, trapeze, bristles, accuse, fires, wires, tires, abuzz, French fries, arise, baptize, clockwise, downsize, resize, revise, supplies, surprise, small size, matches, checkers, leaders, cherries, berries, wind chimes, enzymes, sometimes, cruise ship, arose, bulldoze, compose, expose, meadows, primrose, close to, corn grains, bowels, vowels, classes, glasses, flashes, fossils, freckles, shekels, goggles, napkins, noodles, orchids, because, applause, panties, scissors, themselves, wall shelves, tweezers, veggies, zoom lens

Three or more syllable words:

• secateurs, roller blades, hurricane, holidays, mayonnaise, protease, rose apple, valentine's Day, jellybeans, spareribs, binoculars, Illinois, cheddar cheese, parentheses, parmesan cheese, bronze medal, bull nose pliers, needle nose pliers, snips pliers, Capitalize, hypnotize, cleaning supplies, butterflies, fertilize, exercise, Chinese food, cheerleaders, oftentimes, garden hose, pantyhose, cereals, Rice Krispies, dish towels, eyeglasses, sunglasses, eyelashes, groceries, moccasins, Northwest Territories, potatoes, tomatoes, provinces, shelves  Ourselves