3-Letter Words Starting with D
There are 81 three-letter words that start with D on Word.ws, from dab to dzo. The most common are day, due, dog, die and dad.
Meanings from Wiktionary. Not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list.
All 81 three-letter words that start with D
DA
- dab6v. To press lightly in a repetitive motion with a soft object without...
- dad5n. A father, a male parent.
- daf7n. A large frame drum, resembling a tambourine, used to accompany popular...
- dag5n. A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at...
- dah7n. The spoken representation of a dash in radio and telegraph Morse code.
- dai4n. A wet nurse; a midwife.
- dak8n. A post system by means of transport relays of horses stationed at...
- dal4n. Any of many dried husked pulses (legume), including peas, beans and...
- dam6n. A structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow or...
- dan4n. A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.
- dao4n. Any of various traditional Chinese swords with a curved, single-edged...
- dap6n. A plimsoll.
- dar4n. A fish found in the Severn River; a dart or dace.
- daw7n. A western jackdaw, Coloeus monedula, a passerine bird in the crow...
- day7n. The time when the Sun is above the horizon and it lights the sky.
DB
- dba6n. An alias of a business entity.
DE
- deb6n. A debutante (a young woman who makes her first formal appearance in...
- dec6adj. Declared.
- ded5n. A person who inflicts dedovshchina (a kind of hazing ritual).
- dee4v. To do.
- def7adj. Excellent; very good.
- deg5v. To sprinkle, moisten.
- dek8n. The subhead of a news story.
- del4n. The symbol ∇ used to denote the gradient operator.
- dem6det. (clitic, suffix) A group of.
- den4n. A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks...
- deo4n. Deodorant.
- dep6n. A deposition.
- der4interj. Disdainful indication that something is obvious.
- des4n. Desflurane.
- dev7n. A monster, dragon, serpent, or giant.
- dew7n. Any moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their...
- dex11n. An order or factor of ten.
- dey7n. A servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid.
DI
- dib6v. To dig a hole by poking; especially, to dig a small hole in soil for...
- die4v. To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
- dig5v. To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a...
- dim6adj. Not bright or colorful.
- din4n. A loud noise; a cacophony or loud commotion.
- dip6n. A lower section of a road or geological feature.
- dis4n. Any of a group of minor female deities in Scandinavian folklore.
- dit4v. To stop up; block (an opening); close (compare Scots dit).
- div7n. A function, implemented in many programming languages, that returns the...
- diz13n. A tool, often a flat circle, with one or more holes for passing wool...
DJ
- dje11n. The name of the Cyrillic script letter Ђ / ђ.
DO
- dob6v. To report a person to someone in authority for a wrongdoing. (For...
- doc6n. A doctor.
- dod5n. Sulk, huff.
- doe4n. A female deer; also used of similar animals such as antelope (less...
- dof7adj. Stupid; thick.
- dog5n. The species Canis familiaris (sometimes designated Canis lupus...
- doh7n. A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a...
- dol4n. The unit of measurement for pain.
- dom6n. A dominant in sadomasochistic sexual practices.
- don4n. A university professor, particularly one at Oxford or Cambridge.
- doo4n. Feces, particularly that of a dog.
- dop6n. A diving bird.
- dor4n. Any of species Geotrupes stercorarius of large European dung beetles...
- dot4n. A small, round spot.
- dow7v. To furnish with a dower; to endow.
- dox11n. Documents, especially information sought by hackers about an individual...
- doy7interj. Disdainful indication that something is obvious; see duh.
DR
DT
- dtn4adj. Duplex, tray, network: In relation to the selling of laser printers, a...
DU
- dub6v. To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a...
- duc6n. A French duke.
- dud5n. A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly...
- due4adj. Owed or owing.
- dug5n. A mammary gland on a domestic mammal with more than two breasts, mostly...
- duh7interj. A disdainful indication that something is obvious.
- dum6adj. Cooked with steam.
- dun4n. A brownish grey colour.
- duo4n. Two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially.
- dup6v. To open (a door, gate etc.).
- dur4adj. Major; in the major mode.
- dut4n. A snug woolly hat.
- dux11n. The top (male or female) academic student in a school, or in a year of...
DW
- dwg8n. A vector drawing file generated with AutoCAD.
DY
- dye7n. A colorant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to...
DZ
- dzo13n. A hybrid of a yak and a domesticated cow, especially a male.
1 rare three-letter words that start with D
Questions about these words
- How many three-letter words that start with D are there?
- Word.ws lists 81 three-letter words that start with D, plus 1 rare ones.
- What are common three-letter words that start with D?
- day, due, dog, die, dad, dry, don and dan.
- Which of the three-letter words that start with D has the highest letter score?
- dzo scores 13 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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