3 letter words with A and T

Our dictionary holds 51 3 letter words with a and t, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is QAT, worth 12 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with T than any other letter — 21 of them, about 41% of the list.

39 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (76%), including art, tax, act, sat, fat; the remaining 12 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.