3 letter words with I and E

Our dictionary holds 17 3 letter words with i and e, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is EIK, worth 7 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with I than any other letter — 3 of them, about 18% of the list.

12 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (71%), including die, ice, tie, lie, pie; the remaining 5 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.