3 letter words with K

Our dictionary holds 83 3 letter words with k, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is ZEK, worth 16 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with K than any other letter — 39 of them, about 47% of the list.

18 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (22%), including key, ask, kit, ski, sky; the remaining 65 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.