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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 |
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