3 letter words with C

Our dictionary holds 85 3 letter words with c, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is CAZ, worth 14 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with C than any other letter — 48 of them, about 56% of the list.

57 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (67%), including can, car, act, cut, mac; the remaining 28 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.