3 letter words with ER

Our dictionary holds 14 3 letter words with er, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is ERK, worth 7 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with E than any other letter — 9 of them, about 64% of the list.

7 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (50%), including her, per, era, ser, err; the remaining 7 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.