3 letter words

The list contains 652 common English words with exactly 3 letters; the most frequent are the, and, for and you. The most common first letter is P (46 words), the most common last letter T (65 words).

By first letter

A 38
B 44
C 31
D 33
E 28
F 32
G 26
H 38
I 15
J 15
K 7
L 31
M 34
N 24
O 27
P 46
Q 2
R 33
S 44
T 39
U 6
V 11
W 25
Y 19
Z 4

By last letter

A 16
B 40
C 14
D 46
E 57
F 5
G 45
H 12
I 9
J 1
K 10
L 15
M 34
N 51
O 23
P 46
R 26
S 30
T 65
U 7
V 2
W 30
X 22
Y 42
Z 4

Letters with at least 20 words are linked.

All 3 letter words

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Source and licence

Word list: SCOWL (Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists by Kevin Atkinson; wordlist.aspell.net), size 60, US and British spellings, lower-case words a–z only (no names or abbreviations), including plurals and verb forms; of these only words with a frequency of at least 2.5 on the Zipf scale (about 3 in 10 million words) in the frequency list wordfreq by Robyn Speer (data CC BY-SA 4.0; origin and processing), sorted by that frequency. Counted are the letters a–z. Licence of these lists: GNU GPL version 3 or later (GPL-3.0, SCOWL copyright notice). Raw list as a text file (word and frequency value): haeufig-3.txt.

For word games such as Scrabble or crosswords this is a collection of common words, not an official game list: whether a word counts in a particular game is decided by its rules. No point values are given here.

Updated: 28 September 2026