3 letter words with J

What is in this list

This list holds 26 words, under 0.1% of the 172,634 words this site keeps from the ENABLE word list. Every word here has 3 letters, and they average 3 letters by construction — so the interesting differences are in which letters they use. Of the 16 lists in this group it is the 14th largest: “6 letter words with A” leads with 6,569 and “4 letter words with Q” has the fewest, 16.

Points and vowels

Using this site's letter values, the average word here scores 13.7 points (median 14); words of the same lengths across the whole list average 6.6, so this list runs 7.1 points richer. The top scorers are JAW (16), JEW (16), JOW (16), JAB (15). Point for point, JAW earns the most per letter: 16 points over 3 letters, 5.3 each. J itself is worth 10 points here, which is why so many of these words outscore their length.

Vowels (A, E, I, O, U) make up 37.2% of the letters, against 38% across the whole list. 3 words are more than half vowels: JEE, JEU and JOE.

How the words are built

J opens 23 words (88.5%), closes 3 and sits inside the other 0. 1 word has a doubled letter (3.8%); the most common doubles are EE (1).

Word play in this list

The biggest anagram family here is JAR and RAJ — 2 words from the same 3 letters. Altogether 1 set of anagrams sits inside this list, covering 2 words.

76.9% of these words take an S on the end and stay a word (JAB, JAG and JAM among them); after S, the most useful end letter is A, which extends 3 words. At the front, A turns 2 words into new ones (JAR → AJAR); D turns one word into a new one (JIN → DJIN).

Using this list

The full list is short enough to read in one go: HAJ, JAB, JAG, JAM, JAR, JAW, JAY, JEE, JET, JEU, JEW, JIB, JIG, JIN, JOB, JOE, JOG, JOT, JOW, JOY, JUG, JUN, JUS, JUT, RAJ and TAJ. Ranked by points it runs from JAW (16) down to TAJ (12), a spread of 4 points.