This list contains letter frequency statistics for 3 letter Scrabble words.
How many 3 letter words are there?
TWL Scrabble dictionary contains
1080 three letter words, that is
0.58% of all words.
Scrabble Collins dictionary contains
1292 three letter words, that is
0.48% of all words.
Frequency of letters in 3 letter words
- 30.19% containing A
- 25% containing E
- 24.17% containing O
- 17.41% containing I
- 15.56% containing S
- 14.17% containing T
- 13.89% containing U
- 12.5% containing P
- 12.22% containing R
- 11.57% containing N
- 11.57% containing D
- 11.02% containing M
- 11.02% containing G
- 10.19% containing B
- 9.72% containing Y
- 9.63% containing H
- 9.35% containing L
- 8.24% containing W
- 6.85% containing F
- 6.76% containing C
- 5.28% containing K
- 3.7% containing V
- 3.61% containing X
- 2.69% containing Z
- 2.5% containing J
Letter frequency counts for three letter Scrabble words clearly show that these words most often contain the letters
A, E, O, I, S and least often the letter
Z. Letter distributions of 3-letter words are an useful resource for Scrabble players.
Starting letter frequencies of 3 letter words
- 7.13% starting with A
- 6.67% starting with S
- 6.2% starting with P
- 5.74% starting with T
- 5.19% starting with M
- 5.09% starting with O
- 5.09% starting with D
- 4.91% starting with R
- 4.91% starting with B
- 4.81% starting with H
- 4.81% starting with F
- 4.54% starting with L
- 4.44% starting with G
- 4.07% starting with E
- 3.89% starting with C
- 3.61% starting with W
- 3.43% starting with N
- 2.87% starting with Y
- 2.69% starting with K
- 2.31% starting with V
- 2.13% starting with J
- 1.85% starting with I
- 1.76% starting with U
- 1.39% starting with Z
- 0.28% starting with Q
- 0.19% starting with X
Three letter words begin most frequently with these letters
A, S, P, T and M.
Ending letter frequencies of 3 letter words
- 8.24% ending in S
- 8.06% ending in T
- 7.96% ending in E
- 6.76% ending in N
- 6.2% ending in G
- 5.83% ending in D
- 5.74% ending in P
- 5.19% ending in M
- 4.91% ending in Y
- 4.91% ending in B
- 3.98% ending in A
- 3.8% ending in R
- 3.8% ending in O
- 3.7% ending in W
- 3.15% ending in X
- 3.06% ending in L
- 2.87% ending in H
- 2.04% ending in I
- 1.94% ending in K
- 1.94% ending in C
- 1.76% ending in U
- 1.57% ending in F
- 1.3% ending in Z
- 0.93% ending in V
- 0.28% ending in J
- 0.09% ending in Q
Three letter words end most frequently with these letters
S, T, E, N and G.
Frequencies of vowels and consonants in 3 letter words
Frequency of 3-letter
words with vowels:
18.7% of words(202) contain 2 vowels.
Frequency of 3-letter
words with consonants:
78.06% of words(843) contain 2 consonants.