3 letter words with LE

Our dictionary holds 18 3 letter words with le, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is LEZ, worth 12 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with L than any other letter — 15 of them, about 83% of the list.

12 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (67%), including let, led, lee, les, leg; the remaining 6 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.