3 letter words with E and K

Our dictionary holds 26 3 letter words with e and k, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is ZEK, worth 16 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with K than any other letter — 13 of them, about 50% of the list.

3 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (12%), including key, ken, elk; the remaining 23 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.