3 letter words ending in A

Our dictionary holds 56 3 letter words ending in a, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is QUA, worth 12 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with A than any other letter — 11 of them, about 20% of the list.

25 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (45%), including via, sea, spa, tea, era; the remaining 31 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.