3 letter words with 3 vowels

Our dictionary holds 4 3 letter words with 3 vowels, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is AIA, worth 3 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with A than any other letter — 3 of them, about 75% of the list.

1 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (25%), including eau; the remaining 3 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.