3 letter words with AL

Our dictionary holds 16 3 letter words with al, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is ALF, worth 6 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with A than any other letter — 10 of them, about 63% of the list.

11 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (69%), including all, pal, alt, ala, als; the remaining 5 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.