3 letter words with 2 S's

Our dictionary holds 5 3 letter words with 2 s's, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is ASS, worth 3 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with S than any other letter — 3 of them, about 60% of the list.

5 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (100%), including ass, sis, sos, sus, ess; the remaining 0 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.