3 letter words ending in K

Our dictionary holds 36 3 letter words ending in k, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is ZEK, worth 16 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with E than any other letter — 6 of them, about 17% of the list.

5 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (14%), including ask, ink, oak, elk, ark; the remaining 31 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.