Word.ws English Dictionary

3-Letter Words Starting with E

There are 73 three-letter words that start with E on Word.ws, from eam to eze. The most common are end, eat, eye, era and egg.

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

All 73 three-letter words that start with E

EA

  • eam5n. Uncle.
  • ean3v. To bring forth young; to yean.
  • ear3n. The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna or auricle, auditory...
  • eat3v. To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it...
  • eau3n. Water.

EB

  • eba5n. A stiff dough made by soaking garri in hot water and kneading it with a...
  • ebb7n. The receding movement of the tide.

EC

  • eco5n. A proposed name for the common currency that the West African Monetary...
  • ecu5n. The European Currency Unit (symbol ₠), a currency used in the European...

EE

  • eee3interj. An expression of happiness or excitement: yay!
  • eef6v. To make a vocal rhythm in which some sounds are made by inhaling.
  • eek7interj. Representing a scream or shriek (especially in comic strips and books).
  • eel3n. Any freshwater fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated...
  • een3adv. Even.
  • eep5interj. An expression of surprise or dismay.
  • eer3adv. Unpunctuated contraction of ever.

EF

  • eff9v. Synonym of fuck.
  • eft6n. A newt, especially a smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris, syn. Triturus...

EG

  • egg5n. An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds...
  • egi4n. A type of artificial lure (used for squid).
  • ego4n. The self, especially with a sense of self-importance.

EH

  • ehh9interj. An expression of surprise.
  • ehm8interj. Um, er expressing hesitation.

EI

  • eid4n. An isthmus or narrow neck of land jutting out into the sea; a sandbank...

EK

  • eke7n. An addition.
  • eki7n. A Japanese train station.

EL

  • eld4n. One's age, age in years, period of life.
  • ele3n. Elephant.
  • elf6n. A supernatural being or spirit associated with illness, mischief, and...
  • elk7n. Any of the subspecies of the moose (Alces alces, the largest member of...
  • ell3n. A measure of length. An English ell was 1¼ yards (45 inches or 114 cm)...
  • elm5n. A tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees...
  • elo3n. Synonym of Elo rating.
  • elt3v. To injure (anything) by rough handling; handle roughly.

EM

  • ema5n. A wooden plaque bearing a prayer or wish, left hanging at a Shinto...
  • eme5n. An uncle.
  • emo5n. A subgenre of late 1980s hardcore punk originating in Washington D.C....
  • emu5n. A large flightless bird native to Australia, Dromaius novaehollandiae.

EN

  • end4n. The terminal point of something in space or time.
  • eng4n. The name of the Latin script letter Ŋ/ŋ, formed by combining the...
  • ens3n. An entity or being; an existing thing, as opposed to a quality or...
  • ent3n. A large, fictional, humanoid, walking tree in works by J. R. R. Tolkien.

EO

  • eon3n. Eternity, the duration of the universe.
  • eor3n. The logic function exclusive OR (as opposed to inclusive OR), whose...

EP

  • epi5n. A syringe or autoinjector filled with epinephrine, most frequently used...

ER

  • era3n. A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year.
  • erd4n. The common European shrew (Sorex vulgaris); the shrewmouse or erd shrew.
  • ere3adv. At an earlier time.
  • erf6n. Stock; cattle.
  • erg4n. A unit of work or energy, being the amount of work done by a force of...
  • erk7n. A member of the groundcrew in the RAF.
  • erm5interj. Used in hesitant speech, or to express uncertainty.
  • ern3v. To run; flow.
  • err3v. To make a mistake.
  • ert3v. To incite; urge on; encourage.
  • erw6n. A medieval Welsh unit of surface area equal to 11664 sq ft, or about ¼...

ES

  • ese3n. Dude, man. (Usually used vocatively).
  • esh6n. The IPA symbol ʃ.
  • ess3n. The name of the Latin script letter S/s.
  • est3n. Grace; favour.

ET

  • eta3n. The seventh letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, the eighth in Old...
  • eth6n. A letter (capital Ð, small ð) introduced into Old English to represent...

EV

  • eve6n. The day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas...
  • evo6n. Evening (time of day).
  • evs6n. Odds of 1:1; even money.

EW

  • ewe6n. A female sheep, as opposed to a ram.
  • ewt6n. A newt.
  • eww9interj. Elongated form of ew.

EX

  • exe10n. A Windows executable file.
  • ext10adj. Exterior (describing the location of a shot in a film script, etc.).
  • exy13adj. Expensive.

EY

  • eye6n. An organ through which animals see (“perceive surroundings via light”).

EZ

  • eze12n. A chief of the Igbo people.
1 rare three-letter words that start with E

Questions about these words

How many three-letter words that start with E are there?
Word.ws lists 73 three-letter words that start with E, plus 1 rare ones.
What are common three-letter words that start with E?
end, eat, eye, era, egg, ear, eve and est.
Which of the three-letter words that start with E has the highest letter score?
exy scores 13 points with the standard letter tile values.

Related word lists

Source and license

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.

Cite this page: “3-Letter Words Starting with E: 73 Words.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/words/3-letter/starting-with-e. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.