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List of 3-letter words
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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
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?
- 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% |