3 letter words with E and Y

Our dictionary holds 33 3 letter words with e and y, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is YEX, worth 13 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with Y than any other letter — 9 of them, about 27% of the list.

12 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (36%), including yes, key, yet, eye, hey; the remaining 21 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.