3 letter words with O and Y

Our dictionary holds 24 3 letter words with o and y, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is JOY, worth 13 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with Y than any other letter — 8 of them, about 33% of the list.

5 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (21%), including you, boy, toy, joy, soy; the remaining 19 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.