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3-Letter Words Starting with A

There are 106 three-letter words that start with A on Word.ws, from aad to azo. The most common are and, are, all, any and ago.

Meanings from Wiktionary. Not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list.

All 106 three-letter words that start with A

AA

  • aad4adj. Old.
  • aah6interj. Indication of amazement or surprise or enthusiasm.
  • aak7n. A genre of Korean court music.
  • aal3n. The Indian mulberry or noni (Morinda citrifolia, Morinda tinctoria), a...
  • aam5n. A Dutch and German measure of liquids, used in England for Rhine wine...

AB

  • aba5n. A coarse, often striped, felted fabric from the Middle East, woven from...
  • abb7n. A type of yarn for the warp.
  • abe5v. To be.
  • abs5n. The abdominal muscles; plural of ab.
  • aby8v. To endure or tolerate (something); to experience.

AC

  • ace5n. A playing card showing a single pip, typically the highest or lowest...
  • ach8interj. An expression of annoyance.
  • ack9n. The letter A as used in signalling and other types of communications.
  • act5n. Something done, a deed.

AD

  • add5v. To join or unite (e.g. one thing to another, or as several particulars)...
  • ade4n. A drink made from a fruit, especially a fizzy one.
  • ado4n. Trouble; troublesome business; fuss, commotion.

AE

  • ael3n. Grandfather; forefather, ancestor.

AF

  • aff9n. Affirmative; the resolution made by one group and countered by the...
  • aft6adv. At, near, or towards the stern of a vessel (with the frame of reference...

AG

  • age4n. The amount of time that some being has been alive, or that some thing...
  • agh7interj. An exclamation of mild horror, disgust or frustration.
  • ago4Before now, before the present time.

AH

  • aha6interj. An exclamation of understanding, realization, invention, or recognition.
  • ahi6n. Yellowfin tuna.
  • ahu6n. The goitered gazelle, Gazella subgutturosa.

AI

  • aid4n. Help; assistance; succor, relief.
  • aik7v. To drive.
  • ail3v. To cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative...
  • aim5n. The pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, or object, in...
  • ain3det. Own; belonging to one.
  • air3n. The substance constituting Earth's atmosphere: a gaseous mixture of...
  • ait3n. An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England.

AJ

  • aji10n. A spicy Peruvian sauce, often containing tomatoes, cilantro, hot...
  • ajr10n. Hasanat.

AK

  • aka7n. The New Zealand vine Metrosideros fulgens.
  • ake7adv. Forever.
  • akh10n. In Egyptian mythology, (roughly) a spirit of the dead that has...
  • aks7v. To ask.

AL

  • ala3n. A wing or winglike anatomic process or part, especially of bone.
  • alb5n. A long, white robe worn by priests and other ministers, underneath most...
  • ale3n. A beer or beerlike drink produced by so-called warm fermentation and...
  • alf6n. A supernatural being similar to an elf; one of the Dǫkkálfar or...
  • all3det. Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions...
  • alp5n. A very high mountain. Specifically, one of the Alps, the highest chain...
  • alt3n. Of a voice or instrument, high pitch; especially, the octave above the...

AM

  • ama5n. A traditional Japanese pearl diver, usually female, who mainly dives...
  • amb7n. The outline of a spore or pollen grain, as seen in a polar view.
  • amm7n. Synonym of amnesia (a potent sativa-dominant strain of marijuana).
  • amp7v. To amplify.
  • amt5n. A county in Denmark.

AN

  • ana3n. A collection of things associated with a person or place, especially a...
  • and4conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
  • ani3n. Any bird of the genus Crotophaga in the cuckoo family.
  • ann3n. An annate.
  • ant3n. Any of various insects in the family Formicidae in the order...
  • any6adv. To even the slightest extent; at all.

AP

  • apa5n. A title used for male clergy or saints in the Coptic Church.
  • ape5n. An anthropoid of the superfamily Hominoidea, generally larger than...
  • apo5adj. In an inactive, unbound state.
  • app7n. An application (program), especially a small one designed for a mobile...
  • apt5adj. Suitable; appropriate; fit or fitted; suited.

AR

  • ara3n. The great blue and yellow macaw (Ara ararauna).
  • arb5n. The act of or potential for arbitrage.
  • arc5n. That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as...
  • ard4n. A simple plough consisting of a spike dragged through the soil.
  • are3n. An accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) metric unit of area equal...
  • arf6interj. Synonym of woof (“sound of a dog's bark”).
  • arg4n. An argument; a value passed as a parameter.
  • ark7n. A large box with a flat lid.
  • arm5n. The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the...
  • aro3adj. Aromantic (not experiencing romantic attraction).
  • arp5n. An arpeggiator.
  • arr3interj. Yes.
  • art3n. The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms...
  • ary6det. Any.

AS

  • ase3n. An essential energy in West African religions.
  • ash6n. The solid remains of a fire.
  • ask7v. To request (information, or an answer to a question).
  • asp5n. A venomous viper native to southwestern Europe (Vipera aspis).
  • asr3n. The afternoon Islamic prayer.

AT

  • ate3n. An elder sister.
  • att3n. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Lao kip.

AU

  • aua3n. Aldrichetta forsteri, a mullet of the family Mugilidae.
  • aue3interj. Alas, oh dear; dear me.
  • auk7n. Any of several species of Arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae.
  • aul3n. A village encampment in the Caucasus, Central Asia or the Southern...
  • aux10n. The auxiliary audio connector of a sound system.

AV

  • ave6n. A salutation.
  • avo6n. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Macanese pataca.

AW

  • awa6n. Kava, specifically Piper methysticum.
  • awe6n. A feeling of fear and reverence.
  • awf9n. An elf.
  • awk10adj. Awkward; uncomfortable.
  • awl6n. A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood...
  • awn6n. The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar...
  • aww9interj. Elongated form of aw.

AX

  • axe10n. A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy...

AY

  • aya6adv. Yes; yea; aye.
  • aye6interj. Yes; yea; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative answer to a...
  • ayn6n. Synonym of ayin, the various letters representing the consonant /ʕ/ in...
  • ayo6interj. A greeting.
  • ayr6n. Father.
  • ayu6n. A sweetfish, an amphidromous game fish of East Asia of species...

AZ

  • aza12n. A nitrogen atom substituted for a carbon atom within a ring.
  • azo12adj. Azote, nitrogen.

Questions about these words

How many three-letter words that start with A are there?
Word.ws lists 106 three-letter words that start with A.
What are common three-letter words that start with A?
and, are, all, any, ago, air, ask and age.
Which of the three-letter words that start with A has the highest letter score?
azo 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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