3 letter words with EE

Our dictionary holds 19 3 letter words with ee, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is ZEE, worth 12 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with E than any other letter — 3 of them, about 16% of the list.

10 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (53%), including see, fee, lee, pee, tee; the remaining 9 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.