Word Gallery

3 Letter Words

There are 1,310 words of three letters. 1,009 are playable in Scrabble or Words With Friends, 412 are in everyday use, and the highest scorer is zax at 19 points.

Three-letter words are where most Scrabble boards get built: they reach gaps the two-letter words cannot, and they are the usual way to shed an awkward consonant without passing.

The words

The 400 most common of 1,310, everyday words first. The word finder below reaches all of them.

Everyday words 400

What is in this list

Every word shows its Scrabble score, with the Words With Friends score on hover. Both are raw tile totals: bonus squares depend on where a word is placed, not on the word.

Words in total
1,310
Playable in Scrabble or Words With Friends
1,009 (77%)
Everyday words
412
Archaic or rare
301
Highest Scrabble score
zax at 19
Average Scrabble score
6.1
Letters that turn up most
A 32%, O 25%, E 24%, I 18%, U 15%, T 14%

Three-letter words by first letter

Every 3 letter word grouped by the letter it starts with.

Three-letter words by last letter

The same words grouped by their final letter—the shape of clue a crossword gives you.

Three-letter words containing a letter

Words of three letters that contain a given letter anywhere.

Questions

How many 3 letter words are there?
1,310 across the dictionaries this site merges. 1,009 of those are playable in a word game; the remaining 301 come from Webster's 1913 and are largely obsolete. 412 are everyday English, which is the number that matters if you are trying to think of one rather than validate one.
Which 3 letter word scores highest in Scrabble?
zax, at 19 points in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. That is raw tile value, before any bonus square.
Are all of these valid in Scrabble?
972 of the 1,310 appear in ENABLE, the list Scrabble and Words With Friends programs validate against. Words outside it are shown last, dimmed and labelled, so you do not stake a turn on one.
What are the most common 3 letter words?
Ranked by how often they appear in ordinary English: the, and, for, you, not, are, all, new.

Search your own letters

The finder below is set to three letters. Type a rack and it will return every word of this length you can spell from it, or switch to a pattern and give the positions you know. It searches all 315,007 words, in your browser.

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