3 letter words with U and L

Our dictionary holds 16 3 letter words with u and l, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is LUZ, worth 12 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with L than any other letter — 9 of them, about 56% of the list.

6 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (38%), including flu, leu, lou, luv, lug; the remaining 10 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.