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:
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
WAB | Ultra Rare | a web |
WAD | Common | to form into a wad (a small mass of soft material) |
WAE | Ultra Rare | (var. of WOE) tremendous grief |
WAG | Common | to move briskly up and down or to and fro |
WAI | Wide | water |
WAN | Common | (var. of WAN) unnaturally pale |
WAP | Ultra Rare | (var. of WRAP) to enclose in something wound or folded about |
WAR | Common | to engage in war (a state of open, armed conflict) |
WAS | Common | (var. of BE) to have actuality |
WAT | Rare | (var. of WET) covered or saturated with a liquid |
WAW | Rare | (var. of VAV) a Hebrew letter |
WAX | Common | to coat with wax (a natural, heat-sensitive substance) |
WAY | Common | a method of doing something |
WEB | Common | to provide with a web (an interlaced fabric or structure) |
WED | Common | (var. of MARRY) to enter into marriage |
WEE | Common | very small |
WEM | Ultra Rare | a womb |
WEN | Wide | a benign tumor of the skin |
WET | Common | (var. of WET) covered or saturated with a liquid |
WEX | Ultra Rare | (var. of WAX) to coat with wax (a natural, heat-sensitive substance) |
WEY | Ultra Rare | a measure or weight for dry goods |
WHA | Ultra Rare | (var. of WHO) what or which person or persons |
WHO | Common | what or which person or persons |
WHY | Common | the reason or cause of something |
WIG | Common | to provide with a wig (an artificial covering of hair for the head) |
WIN | Common | (var. of WINNOW) to free grain from impurities |
WIS | Ultra Rare | to know -- WIS and WIST are the only accepted forms of this verb; it cannot be conjugated further |
WIT | Common | (var. of INTELLIGENCE) |
WIZ | Wide | a very clever or skillful person |
WOE | Common | tremendous grief |
WOF | Wide | a fool |
WOG | Wide | a dark-skinned foreigner |
WOK | Common | a cooking utensil |
WON | Common | (var. of DWELL) to reside |
WOO | Common | to seek the affection of |
WOP | Wide | (var. of WHIP) to strike with a whip (an instrument for administering corporal punishment) |
WOS | Ultra Rare | (var. of WO) woe |
WOT | Common | (var. of KNOW) to have a true understanding of |
WOW | Common | to excite to enthusiastic approval |
WOX | Ultra Rare | (var. of WAX) to coat with wax (a natural, heat-sensitive substance) |
WRY | Common | (var. of CONTORT) to twist out of shape |
WUD | Ultra Rare | (var. of INSANE) mentally unsound |
WUS | Ultra Rare | a term for a pal |
WYE | Ultra Rare | the letter Y |
WYN | Ultra Rare | (var. of WYNN) the rune for W |