3 letter words with U and N

Our dictionary holds 20 3 letter words with u and n, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is JUN, worth 10 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with N than any other letter — 5 of them, about 25% of the list.

12 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (60%), including sun, run, fun, jun, gnu; the remaining 8 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.