3 letter words with E and V

Our dictionary holds 13 3 letter words with e and v, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is VEX, worth 13 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with V than any other letter — 7 of them, about 54% of the list.

8 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (62%), including dev, ave, eve, rev, vet; the remaining 5 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.