3 letter words ending in Y

Our dictionary holds 69 3 letter words ending in y, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is JAY, worth 13 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with S than any other letter — 10 of them, about 14% of the list.

35 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (51%), including may, any, day, buy, way; the remaining 34 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.