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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MAA | Ultra Rare | to bleat like a goat |
MAC | Wide | (var. of RAINCOAT) a waterproof coat |
MAD | Common | (var. of INSANE) mentally unsound |
MAE | Ultra Rare | (var. of MORE) a greater amount |
MAG | Wide | (var. of MAGAZINE) a type of periodical publication |
MAK | Ultra Rare | (var. of MAKE) to cause to exist |
MAL | Ultra Rare | (var. of SICKNESS) the state of being sick |
MAM | Wide | mother |
MAN | Ultra Rare | an adult human male |
MAP | Common | to delineate on a map (a representation of a region) |
MAR | Common | to detract from the perfection or wholeness of |
MAS | Common | (var. of MA) mother |
MAT | Common | to pack down so as to form a dense mass |
MAW | Wide | (var. of MOW) to cut down standing herbage |
MAX | Wide | to reach the upper limit |
MAY | Common | to gather flowers in the spring |
MED | Wide | (var. of MEDICATION) |
MEE | Ultra Rare | in Malaysia, noodles or a dish containing noodles |
MEG | Wide | (var. of MEGABYTE) 1,048,576 bytes |
MEL | Rare | honey |
MEM | Wide | a Hebrew letter |
MEN | Common | (var. of MON) man |
MES | Common | (var. of ME) the objective case of the pronoun I |
MET | Common | (var. of MEET) to come into the company or presence of |
MEU | Ultra Rare | the plant baldmoney |
MEW | Common | (var. of CONFINE) to shut within an enclosure |
MHO | Rare | a unit of electrical conductance |
MIB | Ultra Rare | a type of playing marble |
MIC | Wide | (var. of MICROPHONE) |
MID | Wide | the middle |
MIG | Rare | a type of playing marble |
MIL | Wide | a unit of length |
MIM | Rare | primly demure |
MIR | Rare | a Russian peasant commune |
MIS | Ultra Rare | (var. of MI) the third tone of the diatonic musical scale |
MIX | Common | to put together into one mass |
MIZ | Ultra Rare | (var. of MISERY) a state of great suffering |
MNA | Ultra Rare | a Greek weight |
MOA | Rare | an extinct flightless bird |
MOB | Common | to crowd about |
MOC | Ultra Rare | (var. of MOCCASIN) a type of shoe |
MOD | Common | one who wears boldly stylish clothes |
MOE | Ultra Rare | a wry face |
MOG | Rare | to move away |
MOI | Wide | used to express surprise |
MOL | Wide | (var. of MOLE) the quantity of a compound that has a weight equal to the compound's molecular weight |
MOM | Common | mother |
MON | Wide | (var. of MAN) an adult human male |
MOO | Common | to make the deep, moaning sound of a cow |
MOP | Common | to wipe with a mop (an implement for cleaning floors) |
MOR | Wide | a forest humus |
MOS | Wide | (var. of MO) a moment |
MOT | Wide | a witty saying |
MOU | Ultra Rare | a Scots form of mouth |
MOW | Common | to cut down standing herbage |
MOY | Ultra Rare | a measure |
MOZ | Ultra Rare | a curse |
MUD | Common | to cover with mud (soft, wet earth) |
MUG | Common | to assault with intent to rob |
MUM | Common | to act in a disguise |
MUN | Wide | man; fellow |
MUS | Wide | (var. of MU) a Greek letter |
MUT | Rare | (var. of MUTT) a mongrel dog |
MUX | Ultra Rare | (var. of SPOIL) to impair the value or quality of |
MYC | Ultra Rare | a gene that transforms a normal cell into a cancerous cell |