3 letter words with I and K

Our dictionary holds 19 3 letter words with i and k, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is KHI, worth 10 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with K than any other letter — 10 of them, about 53% of the list.

6 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (32%), including kit, ski, ink, kid, kai; the remaining 13 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.