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On this page, you will find a list of all 1,347 3-letter words you can use for popular word games, such as Scrabble, Words With Friends, or solving anagrams. For any additional filtering of this group, you should use our WordFinder tool.
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- List of 3-letter words
- Most common letters in 3-letter words
- Most common starting letters in 3-letter words
- Most common ending letters in 3-letter words
- Most common 3-letter words in English
There are 1,347 words with 3 letters in the English dictionary, some of them being among the most commonly used words in everyday communication.
What are the most common letters in 3-letter words?
- 10.32% of all letters in 3-letter words is the letter A, making it the most frequent letter in this group.
- The letter E accounts for 9.16% of all letters in 3-letter words, the letter O accounts for 9.06%, I accounts for 5.67%, and S accounts for 5.35%.
- Over 39% of letters in 3-letter words are vowels.
- On the other hand, the letter Q appears in only 5 words with 3 letters, accounting for 0.12% of all letters. This makes the letter Q the least frequent letter in 3-letter words.
- 29.62% of all words with 3 letters contain the letter A, 25.46% contain the letter E, and 25.24% contain O.
| Letter | 3-letter words containing | Frequency in 3-letter words | 3-letter words containing % | Frequency in 3-letter words % |
| A | 399 | 417 | 29.62% | 10.32% |
| E | 343 | 370 | 25.46% | 9.16% |
| O | 340 | 366 | 25.24% | 9.06% |
| I | 228 | 229 | 16.93% | 5.67% |
| S | 211 | 216 | 15.66% | 5.35% |
| U | 200 | 203 | 14.85% | 5.02% |
| T | 173 | 179 | 12.84% | 4.43% |
| R | 165 | 168 | 12.25% | 4.16% |
| N | 159 | 164 | 11.80% | 4.06% |
| D | 154 | 160 | 11.43% | 3.96% |
| P | 154 | 160 | 11.43% | 3.96% |
| G | 147 | 151 | 10.91% | 3.74% |
| M | 144 | 153 | 10.69% | 3.79% |
| Y | 138 | 139 | 10.24% | 3.44% |
| B | 126 | 131 | 9.35% | 3.24% |
| L | 125 | 128 | 9.28% | 3.17% |
| H | 123 | 128 | 9.13% | 3.17% |
| W | 110 | 112 | 8.17% | 2.77% |
| F | 91 | 95 | 6.76% | 2.35% |
| C | 87 | 87 | 6.46% | 2.15% |
| K | 84 | 85 | 6.24% | 2.10% |
| V | 55 | 56 | 4.08% | 1.39% |
| Z | 50 | 54 | 3.71% | 1.34% |
| X | 50 | 50 | 3.71% | 1.24% |
| J | 35 | 35 | 2.60% | 0.87% |
| Q | 5 | 5 | 0.37% | 0.12% |
What are the most common starting letters in 3-letter words?
- 95 words with three letters start with the letter A, or 7.05% of them. This makes A the most common starting letter in 3-letter words.
- 92 3-letter words, 6.83%, start with the letter S, 77 words (5.72%) start with the letter P, and 73 words with 3 letters (5.42%) start with T.
- Only 2 words with 3 letters (0.15%) start with the letter X, making it the least common starting letter in this group of words. 4 words (0.30%) start with the letter Q, and 24 words (1.78%) start with Z.
| Letter | 3-letter words starting with | 3-letter words starting with % |
| A | 95 | 7.05% |
| S | 92 | 6.83% |
| P | 77 | 5.72% |
| T | 73 | 5.42% |
| O | 72 | 5.35% |
| D | 69 | 5.12% |
| M | 67 | 4.97% |
| R | 64 | 4.75% |
| G | 63 | 4.68% |
| B | 63 | 4.68% |
| E | 60 | 4.45% |
| H | 60 | 4.45% |
| L | 59 | 4.38% |
| F | 59 | 4.38% |
| N | 53 | 3.93% |
| C | 50 | 3.71% |
| W | 47 | 3.49% |
| K | 39 | 2.90% |
| Y | 37 | 2.75% |
| V | 32 | 2.38% |
| J | 30 | 2.23% |
| U | 29 | 2.15% |
| I | 27 | 2.00% |
| Z | 24 | 1.78% |
| Q | 4 | 0.30% |
| X | 2 | 0.15% |
What are the most common ending letters in 3-letter words?
- E is the most common ending letter in 3-letter words, as 110 words (8.17%) end in this letter.
- 109 words with 3 letters end with S, 93 end with T, and 86 end with N.
- Only 1 word with 3 letters ends with the letter Q, three words end with J, and 16 end with V. These are the least common ending letters in 3-letter words.
| Letter | Ending with | Ending with % |
| E | 110 | 8.17% |
| S | 109 | 8.09% |
| T | 93 | 6.90% |
| N | 86 | 6.38% |
| G | 78 | 5.79% |
| D | 77 | 5.72% |
| P | 71 | 5.27% |
| Y | 69 | 5.12% |
| M | 66 | 4.90% |
| A | 58 | 4.31% |
| B | 57 | 4.23% |
| O | 55 | 4.08% |
| R | 52 | 3.86% |
| W | 46 | 3.41% |
| X | 44 | 3.27% |
| L | 39 | 2.90% |
| H | 38 | 2.82% |
| K | 37 | 2.75% |
| I | 33 | 2.45% |
| U | 31 | 2.30% |
| Z | 27 | 2.00% |
| F | 26 | 1.93% |
| C | 25 | 1.86% |
| V | 16 | 1.19% |
| J | 3 | 0.22% |
| Q | 1 | 0.07% |
What are the most common 3-letter words in English?
Even though only 0.6% of all words in the English dictionary are 3-letter words, they account for more than 15.12% of all words used in the everyday language. Among them, these are the most frequently used words:
- The most common word with three letters in the English language is the determiner THE, accounting for 5.24% of all words used in the everyday language.
- Coordinating conjunction AND is the second most common 3-letter word, accounting for 2.50% of all used words.
- These 2 words also account for more than half of all 3-letter words in terms of frequency of use.
- Next on the list is the adposition FOR (0.77%), pronouns YOU (0.73%) and HIS (0.33%), and particle NOT (0.30%).
- Over 73% of all 3-letter words are nouns and proper nouns. However, frequency-wise, they only account for less than 7% of all 3-letter words.
- On the other hand, determiners and coordinating conjunctions account for less than 0.53% of all words with 3 letters, but over 53% of all 3-letter words used in the everyday language are from these two groups.
| Word | Word type | Frequency |
| THE | Determiner | 5.24% |
| AND | Coordinating conjunction | 2.50% |
| FOR | Adposition | 0.77% |
| YOU | Pronoun | 0.73% |
| HIS | Pronoun | 0.33% |
| NOT | Particle | 0.30% |
| CAN | Auxiliary verb | 0.28% |
| BUT | Coordinating conjunction | 0.26% |
| ONE | Numeral | 0.21% |
| SAY | Verb | 0.19% |