3 letter words with I and Y

Our dictionary holds 5 3 letter words with i and y, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is IVY, worth 9 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with Y than any other letter — 3 of them, about 60% of the list.

2 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (40%), including ivy, yin; the remaining 3 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.