3 letter words with Y as the 2nd letter

Our dictionary holds 31 3 letter words with y as the 2nd letter, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is PYX, worth 15 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with A than any other letter — 3 of them, about 10% of the list.

7 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (23%), including eye, gym, aye, bye, dye; the remaining 24 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.