3 letter words with I and R

Our dictionary holds 21 3 letter words with i and r, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is RIZ, worth 12 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with R than any other letter — 12 of them, about 57% of the list.

13 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (62%), including air, sir, sri, rid, rip; the remaining 8 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.