3 letter words with 2 A's

Our dictionary holds 18 3 letter words with 2 a's, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is AKA, worth 7 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with A than any other letter — 14 of them, about 78% of the list.

7 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (39%), including aka, ana, ala, faa, ama; the remaining 11 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.