How many 3 letter words are in the English language?

Answer 1

Hundreds of words contain exactly three letters. Some of those words include ace, act, add, age, aid, aim, air, ale, all, alp, amp, and, ant, any, ape, apt, arc, are, arm, art, ask, ate, awe, axe, box, boy, Cab, cad, cam, can, cap, car, cat, cob, cod, cog, con, cop, cot, cow, coy, cry, cub, cue, cup, cut, dad, did, dim, ear, eat, ebb, eel, egg, ego, elf, elk, end, era, err, eve, ewe, eye, fan, fly, fur, gas, gin, guy, hat, him, icy, inn, jam, joy, keg, key, kid, lab, lad, lag, lap, law, lax, lay, led, leg, let, lid, lie, lip, lob, log, lot, low, lug, lye, mad, man, map, mat, max, may, men, met, mid, mil, mix, mob, mom, mop, mow, mud, mug, mum, net, not, now, off, one, pan, put, ran, run, sin, sit, tin, ugh, ump, urn, use, van, vat, vim, win, yak, yes, you, zip and zoo.

Answer 2

The letters can be used to spell the 4 letter words shin, sigh, sign, sing and hens. They also spell isle, legs, lens, lies and line.