3 letter words with U and Y

Our dictionary holds 12 3 letter words with u and y, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is KYU, worth 10 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with Y than any other letter — 6 of them, about 50% of the list.

5 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (42%), including you, buy, guy, yum, yup; the remaining 7 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.