3 letter words ending in V

Our dictionary holds 14 3 letter words ending in v, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is VAV, worth 9 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with L than any other letter — 3 of them, about 21% of the list.

6 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (43%), including dev, rev, div, gov, luv; the remaining 8 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.