3 letter words with OU

Our dictionary holds 11 3 letter words with ou, 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 55% of the list.

4 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (36%), including you, our, out, lou; the remaining 7 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.