3 letter words with A and R

Our dictionary holds 46 3 letter words with a and r, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is JAR, worth 10 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with R than any other letter — 16 of them, about 35% of the list.

32 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (70%), including are, car, art, air, war; the remaining 14 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.