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3-Letter Words Ending in A

There are 77 three-letter words ending in A on Word.ws, from aba to zea. The most common are sea, via, tea, era and yea.

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All 77 three-letter words ending in A

A

  • aba5n. A coarse, often striped, felted fabric from the Middle East, woven from...
  • aha6interj. An exclamation of understanding, realization, invention, or recognition.
  • aka7n. The New Zealand vine Metrosideros fulgens.
  • ala3n. A wing or winglike anatomic process or part, especially of bone.
  • ama5n. A traditional Japanese pearl diver, usually female, who mainly dives...
  • ana3n. A collection of things associated with a person or place, especially a...
  • apa5n. A title used for male clergy or saints in the Coptic Church.
  • ara3n. The great blue and yellow macaw (Ara ararauna).
  • aua3n. Aldrichetta forsteri, a mullet of the family Mugilidae.
  • awa6n. Kava, specifically Piper methysticum.
  • aya6adv. Yes; yea; aye.
  • aza12n. A nitrogen atom substituted for a carbon atom within a ring.

B

  • baa5n. The characteristic cry or bleating of a sheep or (broader) a sheep or...
  • boa5n. Any of a group of large American snakes, of the genus Boa, subfamily...
  • bra5n. An item of clothing, usually underwear worn to support the breasts.

C

  • cha8n. Tea, (sometimes dialect) specifically masala chai.
  • coa5n. A primitive hoe, a sharp wooden rod formerly used by Native Americans...

D

  • dba6n. An alias of a business entity.

E

  • eba5n. A stiff dough made by soaking garri in hot water and kneading it with a...
  • ema5n. A wooden plaque bearing a prayer or wish, left hanging at a Shinto...
  • era3n. A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year.
  • eta3n. The seventh letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, the eighth in Old...

F

  • faa6n. The letter ف in the Arabic script.
  • fra6n. A title of a friar or monk: brother.

G

  • goa4n. A Tibetan gazelle of species Procapra picticaudata, an antelope that...

H

  • haa6interj. A sigh.
  • hea6adv. Here.
  • hoa6interj. Ho; hey; a call for attention.

I

  • ita3n. A kind of palm tree (Mauritia flexuosa), growing near the Orinoco.
  • iwa6n. A great frigatebird (Fregata minor).

K

  • kea7n. Nestor notabilis, a parrot of New Zealand.
  • kha10n. The name of the Cyrillic script letter Х / х.
  • koa7n. A large tree of species Acacia koa (family Fabaceae) which is endemic...
  • kra7n. The letter Κʻ or ĸ, formerly used to write the Kalaallisut language of...

L

  • lea3n. An open field, meadow, pasture.
  • loa3n. In the voodoo religion, a spirit intermediary between Bondye (the...

M

  • maa5interj. A bleating sound, as that of a sheep or goat.
  • mia5n. An ancient bluffing game played with dice.
  • moa5n. Any of several species of large, extinct, flightless birds of the...

N

  • nia3part. Only, merely, that's all; used at the end of a sentence to emphasize...
  • noa3adj. Non-taboo; serving to replace a taboo name or term.
  • nya6interj. The cry of a cat: meow, miaow.

O

  • oba5n. A king of a Yoruba polity.
  • oca5n. Any member of the species Oxalis tuberosa (syn. Oxalis crenata), which...
  • oda4n. A room within a harem.
  • oga4n. A chief, employer, or superior.
  • oka7n. A former Turkish, Egyptian, Hungarian, and Romanian unit of weight...
  • oma5n. Grandmother, grandma.
  • opa5n. Grandfather, grandpa.
  • ora3n. A unit of money among the Anglo-Saxons.

P

  • pea5n. Any of certain plants of the family Fabaceae: Pisum sativum and others.
  • pia5n. The pia mater, the innermost of the meninges that protect the brain and...
  • poa5n. Any grass of the genus Poa, especially Poa annua.
  • pua5n. A type of fried sweet cake made of flour and sugar/jaggery popular in...
  • pya8n. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Burmese kyat.

Q

  • qua12prep. As; in the capacity of; acting as.

R

  • raa3n. The letter ر in the Arabic script.
  • ria3n. A narrow inlet of the sea formed by a flooded unglaciated river valley.
  • rta3n. The Vedic principle of natural order that regulates the operation of...
  • rya6n. A Scandinavian knotted-pile woollen rug, used as bed-cover and tapestry.

S

  • sea3n. A large body of salt water.
  • sha6n. The letter Ш, ш.
  • sia3part. Tagged at the end of a sentence to express discontent, shock, surprise...
  • ska7n. A style of Jamaican dance music originating in the late 1950s...
  • spa5n. A health resort near a mineral spring or hot spring.
  • ssa3n. Filter-avoidance spelling of ass.

T

  • taa3n. A kind of pagoda in China and Japan.
  • tea3n. The tea plant (Camellia sinensis); (countable) a variety of this plant.
  • toa3n. A small painted artifact made by the Diyari people of Australia...
  • tra3n. Synonym of iridescent shark (“a shark catfish of species Pangasianodon...

U

  • uta3n. Cutaneous leishmaniasis.
  • uva6n. Grape, raisin, grape-like fruit.

V

  • via6n. A main road or highway, especially in ancient Rome. (Mainly used in set...

Y

  • yaa6n. The letter ي (y) in the Arabic script.
  • yea6adv. Yes, indeed.

Z

  • zaa12n. The letter ظ in the Arabic script.
  • zea12n. Any plant of the genus Zea.

Questions about these words

How many three-letter words ending in A are there?
Word.ws lists 77 three-letter words ending in A.
What are common three-letter words ending in A?
sea, via, tea, era, yea, aka, spa and ana.
Which of the three-letter words ending in A has the highest letter score?
zea scores 12 points with the standard letter tile values.

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Word lists and meanings adapted from the Wiktionary entry of each word. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out names, abbreviations, misspellings and offensive words, and ordered the most common words by how often they appear in English (wordfreq). Meanings from Wiktionary; this is not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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