Valid Three Letter Words in SOWPODS

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.org 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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ICE	Common	to cover with ice (frozen water)
ICH	Ultra Rare	a disease of certain fishes
ICK	Ultra Rare	used to express disgust
ICY	Common	covered with ice
IDE	Ultra Rare	a European freshwater fish
IDS	Wide	(var. of ID) a part of the psyche
IFF	Ultra Rare	if and only if
IFS	Common	(var. of IF) a possibility
IGG	Ultra Rare	(var. of IGNORE) to refuse to notice
ILK	Common	a class or kind
ILL	Common	(var. of EVIL) morally bad
IMP	Common	to graft feathers onto a bird's wing
INK	Common	to mark with ink (a colored fluid used for writing)
INN	Common	to put up at an inn (a public lodging house)
INS	Common	(var. of IN) to harvest
ION	Common	an electrically charged atom
IOS	Ultra Rare	(var. of IO) a cry of joy
IRE	Common	(var. of ANGER) to make angry
IRK	Common	to annoy or weary
ISH	Ultra Rare	a Scottish law term for expiry
ISM	Wide	a distinctive theory or doctrine
ISO	Ultra Rare	film replay facilities
ITA	Wide	the miriti palm
ITS	Common	the possessive form of the pronoun it
IVY	Common	a climbing vine
IWI	Wide	(var. of TRIBE) a group of people sharing a common ancestry, language, and culture

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