3 letter words ending in L

Our dictionary holds 38 3 letter words ending in l, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is ZEL, worth 12 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with A than any other letter — 4 of them, about 11% of the list.

23 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (61%), including all, oil, tel, vol, del; the remaining 15 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.