3 letter words with OA

Our dictionary holds 11 3 letter words with oa, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is ZOA, worth 12 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with O than any other letter — 4 of them, about 36% of the list.

3 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (27%), including oak, goa, boa; the remaining 8 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.