3 letter words with no vowels

Our dictionary holds 41 3 letter words with no vowels, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is ZZZ, worth 30 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with S than any other letter — 9 of them, about 22% of the list.

16 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (39%), including why, try, pst, dry, fly; the remaining 25 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.