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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UDO | Rare | a Japanese herb |
UDS | Ultra Rare | (var. of OATH) a formal declaration or promise to fulfill a pledge |
UEY | Ultra Rare | a U turn |
UFO | Ultra Rare | an unidentified flying object |
UGH | Common | the sound of a cough or grunt |
UGS | Ultra Rare | (var. of UG) to arouse loathing in |
UKE | Ultra Rare | (var. of UKELELE) ukulele |
ULE | Ultra Rare | a rubber tree |
ULU | Ultra Rare | an Eskimo knife |
UMM | Ultra Rare | (var. of UM) used to indicate hesitation |
UMP | Wide | (var. of UMPIRE) to act as umpire (a person appointed to rule on the plays in a game) |
UMU | Ultra Rare | (var. of OVEN) an enclosed compartment in which substances are heated |
UNI | Wide | university |
UNS | Ultra Rare | (var. of UN) one |
UPO | Ultra Rare | (var. of UPON) on |
UPS | Common | (var. of UP) to raise |
URB | Ultra Rare | an urban area |
URD | Ultra Rare | an annual bean grown in India |
URE | Ultra Rare | a wild ox |
URN | Common | (var. of VASE) a rounded, decorative container |
URP | Ultra Rare | (var. of VOMIT) to eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth |
USE | Common | to put into service |
UTA | Ultra Rare | any of a genus of large lizards |
UTE | Ultra Rare | a utility vehicle |
UTS | Ultra Rare | (var. of UT) the musical tone C in the French solmization system now replaced by do |
UTU | Ultra Rare | retribution |
UVA | Ultra Rare | a grape |