3 letter words with 2 E's

Our dictionary holds 26 3 letter words with 2 e's, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is ZEE, worth 12 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with E than any other letter — 10 of them, about 38% of the list.

12 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (46%), including see, eye, fee, lee, eve; the remaining 14 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.