3 letter words with E and C

Our dictionary holds 14 3 letter words with e and c, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is CHE, worth 8 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with C than any other letter — 5 of them, about 36% of the list.

8 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (57%), including ice, sec, ace, rec, eco; the remaining 6 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.