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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| PAC | Ultra Rare | a shoe patterned after a moccasin |
| PAD | Common | to line or stuff with soft material |
| PAH | Wide | used as an exclamation of disgust |
| PAL | Common | to associate as friends |
| PAM | Wide | the jack of clubs in certain card games |
| PAN | Common | to criticize harshly |
| PAP | Common | a soft food for infants |
| PAR | Common | to shoot in a standard number of strokes in golf |
| PAS | Common | a dance step |
| PAT | Common | to touch lightly |
| PAV | Ultra Rare | (var. of PAVLOVA) a meringue dessert |
| PAW | Common | to strike or scrape with a beating motion |
| PAX | Rare | a ceremonial embrace given to signify Christian love and unity |
| PAY | Common | to give money or something of value in exchange for goods or services |
| PEA | Common | the edible seed of an annual herb |
| PEC | Rare | a chest muscle |
| PED | Wide | a natural soil aggregate |
| PEE | Wide | the letter P |
| PEG | Common | to fasten with a peg (a wooden pin) |
| PEH | Ultra Rare | (var. of PE) a Hebrew letter |
| PEN | Common | to write with a pen (an instrument for writing with fluid ink) |
| PEP | Common | to fill with energy |
| PER | Common | for each |
| PES | Rare | a foot or footlike part |
| PET | Common | to caress with the hand |
| PEW | Common | a bench for seating people in church |
| PHI | Wide | a Greek letter |
| PHO | Ultra Rare | (var. of FOH) faugh |
| PHT | Ultra Rare | used as an expression of mild anger or annoyance |
| PIA | Ultra Rare | a membrane of the brain |
| PIC | Wide | a photograph |
| PIE | Common | (var. of PI) a Greek letter |
| PIG | Common | to bear pigs (cloven-hoofed mammals) |
| PIN | Common | to fasten with a pin (a slender, pointed piece of metal) |
| PIP | Wide | to break through the shell of an egg |
| PIR | Ultra Rare | a Muslim title of honour |
| PIS | Common | (var. of PI) a Greek letter |
| PIT | Common | to mark with cavities or depressions |
| PIU | Wide | more -- used as a musical direction |
| PIX | Wide | (var. of PYX) a container in which the eucharistic bread is kept |
| PLU | Ultra Rare | (var. of PLEW) a beaver skin |
| PLY | Common | to supply with or offer repeatedly |
| POA | Ultra Rare | a type of plant |
| POD | Common | to produce seed vessels |
| POH | Ultra Rare | used to express disgust |
| POI | Wide | a Hawaiian food |
| POL | Wide | (var. of POLITICIAN) |
| POM | Wide | (var. of POMMY) an immigrant from the British Isles |
| POO | Wide | (var. of DEFECATE) to discharge feces |
| POP | Common | to make a sharp, explosive sound |
| POS | Wide | (var. of PO) a chamberpot |
| POT | Common | to put in a pot (a round, fairly deep container) |
| POW | Wide | an explosive sound |
| POX | Wide | to infect with syphilis |
| POZ | Ultra Rare | (var. of POSITIVE) certain |
| PRE | Ultra Rare | (var. of BEFORE) previously |
| PRO | Common | an argument or vote in favor of something |
| PRY | Common | to inquire impertinently into private matters |
| PSI | Wide | a Greek letter |
| PST | Ultra Rare | (var. of PSST) used to attract someone's attention |
| PUB | Common | (var. of TAVERN) a place where liquor is sold to be drunk on the premises |
| PUD | Wide | (var. of PUDDING) a thick, soft dessert |
| PUG | Wide | to fill in with clay or mortar |
| PUH | Ultra Rare | an exclamation of disgust |
| PUL | Rare | a coin of Afghanistan |
| PUN | Common | to make a pun (a play on words) |
| PUP | Common | to give birth to puppies |
| PUR | Ultra Rare | (var. of PURR) to utter a low, vibrant sound |
| PUS | Common | a viscous fluid formed in infected tissue |
| PUT | Common | to place in a particular position |
| PUY | Ultra Rare | a small volcanic cone |
| PYA | Rare | a copper coin of Burma |
| PYE | Rare | a book of ecclesiastical rules in the pre-Reformation English church |
| PYX | Wide | a container in which the eucharistic bread is kept |
