3 letter words with AI

Our dictionary holds 14 3 letter words with ai, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is JAI, worth 10 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with A than any other letter — 8 of them, about 57% of the list.

7 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (50%), including air, aid, aim, kai, tai; the remaining 7 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.