Word.ws English Dictionary

3-Letter Words Starting with L

There are 61 three-letter words that start with L on Word.ws, from lab to lye. The most common are lot, let, law, low and led.

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All 61 three-letter words that start with L

LA

  • lab5n. A laboratory.
  • lac5n. A resinous substance or lacquer produced mainly on the banyan tree by...
  • lad4n. A boy or young man.
  • lag4adj. Late.
  • lah6part. Placed at the end of a sentence to accentuate the mood or attitude of...
  • lai3n. A mostly North European medieval form of lyrical, narrative poem...
  • lam5v. To beat or thrash.
  • lap5n. The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays...
  • lar3n. A lar gibbon (Hylobates lar).
  • lat3n. A monumental pillar, particularly the Buddhist columns erected in East...
  • lau3v. To place upon; to put down onto.
  • law6n. The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards...
  • lax10n. A salmon.
  • lay6v. To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.

LE

  • lea3n. An open field, meadow, pasture.
  • led4adj. Under somebody's control or leadership.
  • lee3n. A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind.
  • leg4n. A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on...
  • leh6part. Used to convey uncertainty (in response to inconsistent information).
  • lei3n. A garland of flowers in Hawaii.
  • lek7n. An aggregation of male animals for the purposes of courtship and...
  • leo3n. A fairy chess piece which moves analogously to the xiangqi cannon and...
  • lep5n. A butterfly or moth.
  • let3v. To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to).
  • leu3n. The unit of currency of Romania, equal to one hundred bani.
  • lev6n. The currency of Bulgaria from 1880 to 2025; divided into 100 stotinki.
  • lew6adj. Lukewarm, tepid.
  • lex10v. To perform lexical analysis; to convert a character stream to a token...
  • ley6n. Arable land used temporarily for hay or grazing.

LI

  • lib5n. Liberal.
  • lid4n. The top or cover of a container.
  • lie3v. To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
  • lig4v. To lie; be in a prostrate or recumbent position.
  • lil3n. A book.
  • lin3v. To desist, to stop, to cease.
  • lip5n. Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.
  • lis3n. The substance of a legal dispute.
  • lit3v. To run or light (alight).

LO

  • loa3n. In the voodoo religion, a spirit intermediary between Bondye (the...
  • lob5v. To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arc.
  • loc5n. A dreadlock.
  • lof6n. Community, tribe: basic social organization of the Mapuche, Huilliche...
  • log4n. The trunk of a dead tree, cleared of branches.
  • lol3interj. Used in song as a nonsense syllable.
  • loo3n. A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
  • lop5v. To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune...
  • lor3part. Tagged at the end of a sentence to convey a sense of resignation or...
  • los3n. A medium-sized wildcat, most of them part of the genus Lynx.
  • lot3n. A large quantity or number; a great deal.
  • low6adj. Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal...
  • lox10n. Salmon that is cured in brine and then smoked at a low temperature so...
  • loy6n. A type of one-eared spade used in Ireland.

LT

  • lth6adj. Occurring at position l in a sequence.

LU

  • lue3v. To sift using a sieve, particularly in mining tin or silver.
  • lug4n. The act of hauling or dragging.
  • lum5n. A chimney; also, the top part of a chimney.
  • lur3n. A long natural blowing horn without finger holes, played by embouchure.
  • lux10n. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of illuminance...
  • luz12n. A small bone in the human spinal column, believed in Muslim and Jewish...

LX

  • lxd11n. Gender-neutral version of lad; a term of address for a young person of...

LY

  • lye6n. An alkaline liquid made by leaching ashes (usually wood ashes).

Questions about these words

How many three-letter words that start with L are there?
Word.ws lists 61 three-letter words that start with L.
What are common three-letter words that start with L?
lot, let, law, low, led, lol, lie and los.
Which of the three-letter words that start with L has the highest letter score?
luz 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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