3 letter words with I and S

Our dictionary holds 42 3 letter words with i and s, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is QIS, worth 12 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with S than any other letter — 16 of them, about 38% of the list.

28 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (67%), including his, its, six, ski, iso; the remaining 14 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.