3 letter words with IE

Our dictionary holds 9 3 letter words with ie, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is FIE, worth 6 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with D than any other letter — 1 of them, about 11% of the list.

6 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (67%), including die, tie, lie, pie, vie; the remaining 3 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.