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3-Letter Words Starting with N

There are 65 three-letter words that start with N on Word.ws, from nab to nyo. The most common are not, new, now, non and nor.

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All 65 three-letter words that start with N

NA

  • nab5v. To seize, arrest or take into custody (a criminal or fugitive).
  • nad4n. Noun animate dependent.
  • nag4n. A small horse; a pony.
  • nah6interj. No.
  • nai3n. A barber.
  • nak7n. A female yak.
  • nan3n. Synonym of nursemaid.
  • nao3n. A Spanish or Portuguese carrack.
  • nap5v. To have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during...
  • nat3n. A spirit in Burmese mythology, whose cult is followed alongside...
  • nau3n. Synonym of carrack.
  • nav6v. To navigate.
  • naw6interj. No.
  • nay6n. A vote against.

NE

  • neb5n. A bird's beak.
  • nee3adj. Used when giving a former name. Originally known as.
  • nef6n. An extravagant table ornament and container used in the Middle Ages and...
  • neg4n. An expression or implication that one has a negative value judgement of...
  • nek7n. A col (a dip on a mountain ridge between two peaks).
  • nen3pron. None.
  • nep5n. Catmint, catnip; Nepeta cataria.
  • ner3interj. An interjection generally used when gloating about a perceived cause of...
  • net3n. A mesh of string, cord or rope.
  • neu3n. Synonym of HER-2.
  • new6adj. Recently made, or created.
  • ney6n. A type of endblown flute.

NI

  • nia3part. Only, merely, that's all; used at the end of a sentence to emphasize...
  • nib5n. The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to...
  • nic5n. Nicotine.
  • nig4n. Niggard.
  • nil3n. Nothing; zero.
  • nim5v. To walk with short, quick strides; trip along.
  • nin3n. Affectionate name for a grandmother.
  • nip5v. To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or...
  • nis3n. A nix; a hobgoblin, especially one that resides in a farm house.
  • nit3n. The egg of a louse.
  • niu3n. A tall pole with yardarms from which hung ropes, circled by worshippers...
  • nix10n. Nothing.

NO

  • noa3adj. Non-taboo; serving to replace a taboo name or term.
  • nob5n. The head.
  • nod4v. To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement.
  • nog4n. A wooden block, the size of a brick, built into a wall, as a hold for...
  • noh6n. A form of classical Japanese music drama.
  • nom5interj. Used to denote eating, or enjoyment of eating.
  • non3n. A non-Muslim citizen.
  • noo3adv. Now.
  • nop5n. A no-op; a CPU instruction that does nothing.
  • nor3conj. And... not (introducing a negative statement, without necessarily...
  • not3adv. Negates the meaning of the modified verb.
  • nov6n. A novice.
  • now6adj. Present; current.
  • nox10n. The period of darkness in each twenty-four hours; a night.
  • noy6v. To annoy; to harm or injure.

NT

  • nth6adj. Occurring at position n in a sequence.

NU

  • nub5n. A small knob or lump.
  • nuc5n. A nucleus colony; a small bee colony created from a larger colony.
  • nug4n. A lump; a block.
  • nuh6interj. No, nah.
  • nuk7interj. The sound of a pacifier being suckled on.
  • num5interj. Used to denote eating, or enjoyment of eating.
  • nun3n. A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by...
  • nup5part. No, nope.
  • nut3n. Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various...

NY

  • nya6interj. The cry of a cat: meow, miaow.
  • nyo6part. Pronunciation or cutesy spelling of no.

Questions about these words

How many three-letter words that start with N are there?
Word.ws lists 65 three-letter words that start with N.
What are common three-letter words that start with N?
not, new, now, non, nor, net, nah and nov.
Which of the three-letter words that start with N has the highest letter score?
nox scores 10 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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