3 letter words with O and U

Our dictionary holds 15 3 letter words with o and u, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is OUK, worth 7 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with O than any other letter — 6 of them, about 40% of the list.

6 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (40%), including you, our, out, duo, lou; the remaining 9 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.