If you want to improve your game, there's no better way than to familiarize yourself with all valid three-letter words. Many of these are in common usage, but a great number of them are rarely-used in everyday language, and known only to specialists, word-buffs and puzzle-addicts. Here we provide all playable 3-letter words in alphabetical order, along with their Wordtwist difficulty rating and a brief definition. If you'd like to learn more about a particular word, just click the underlined word to pull up alternate definitions, sample usage and pictures related to that term.
Select a letter to view all valid, three-letter words in SOWPODS (the dictionary we use on this site) which begin with that letter:
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GAB | Common | (var. of CHATTER) to talk rapidly and trivially |
GAD | Wide | to roam about restlessly |
GAE | Ultra Rare | (var. of GO) to move along |
GAG | Common | to stop up the mouth |
GAL | Common | (var. of GIRL) a female child |
GAM | Rare | to visit socially |
GAN | Rare | (var. of GIN) to begin |
GAP | Common | to make an opening in |
GAR | Wide | to cause or compel |
GAS | Common | to supply with gas (a substance capable of indefinite expansion) |
GAT | Rare | a pistol |
GAU | Ultra Rare | a Nazi political district |
GAY | Common | (var. of MERRY) cheerful |
GED | Ultra Rare | a food fish |
GEE | Common | to turn to the right |
GEL | Common | to become like jelly |
GEM | Common | to adorn with gems (precious stones) |
GEN | Wide | information obtained from study |
GEO | Ultra Rare | a gully |
GET | Common | a divorce under Jewish law |
GEY | Rare | very |
GHI | Ultra Rare | (var. of GHEE) a kind of liquid butter made in India |
GIB | Rare | to fasten with a wedge of wood or metal |
GID | Rare | a disease of sheep |
GIE | Rare | (var. of GIVE) to transfer freely to another's possession |
GIF | Ultra Rare | if |
GIG | Common | to catch fish with a pronged spear |
GIN | Common | (var. of BEGIN) to start |
GIO | Ultra Rare | (var. of GEO) a gully |
GIP | Rare | (var. of GYP) to swindle |
GIS | Ultra Rare | (var. of GI) a judo costume |
GIT | Common | (var. of GET) a divorce under Jewish law |
GJU | Ultra Rare | (var. of GUE) an old Shetland viol |
GNU | Common | a large antelope |
GOA | Rare | an Asian gazelle |
GOB | Common | to fill a mine pit with waste material |
GOD | Common | to treat as a god (a supernatural being) |
GOE | Ultra Rare | (var. of GO) to move along |
GON | Ultra Rare | a grade |
GOO | Common | a sticky or viscid substance |
GOR | Ultra Rare | used as a mild oath |
GOS | Common | (var. of GO) to move along |
GOT | Common | (var. of GET) a divorce under Jewish law |
GOV | Wide | a regulator, short for governor |
GOX | Ultra Rare | gaseous oxygen |
GOY | Rare | a non-Jewish person |
GUB | Ultra Rare | a white man |
GUE | Ultra Rare | an old Shetland viol |
GUL | Ultra Rare | a design in oriental carpets |
GUM | Common | to smear, seal, or clog with gum (a sticky, viscid substance) |
GUN | Common | to shoot with a gun (a portable firearm) |
GUP | Ultra Rare | gossip |
GUR | Ultra Rare | sugar |
GUS | Ultra Rare | (var. of GU) gue |
GUT | Common | to remove the guts (intestines) of |
GUV | Wide | (var. of GOVERNOR) one that governs |
GUY | Common | (var. of RIDICULE) to make fun of |
GYM | Common | a room for athletic activities |
GYP | Wide | (var. of SWINDLE) to take money or property from by fraudulent means |