3 letter words with O and S

Our dictionary holds 45 3 letter words with o and s, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is SOZ, worth 12 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with S than any other letter — 17 of them, about 38% of the list.

21 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (47%), including los, son, iso, dos, pos; the remaining 24 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.