When I play Quordy (and Boggle, but it’s been a while), I enjoy taking my time to spot long words for big points. I also value the strategy of finding many short words quickly. The shortest playable word has three letters, so I thought it’d be handy to compile a list of three-letter words that are also words when spelled backwards. Put more simply(?), I wanted a list combining palindromes with other “reversible words.”

I found a list that appeared satisfactory. But compared to the small handwritten one I’d been keeping, it missed some obvious words (HAY, NAW, MAY) and some not-as-obvious ones (AHS, TEW). So I developed my own master list, based on my research and that of others. It has156 words, which I’ve alphabetized and listed below.

The reference for these words, by the way, is the second edition of the Official Word List, used for North American tournament Scrabble. (Quordy’s dictionary is “based on” this list, according to the game’s instructions.) You can download the list as a nearly 2MB text file from the Internet Scrabble Club’s “Lists of Words” page.

ABA
AGA
AHA
AHS
AIR
ALA
AMA
ANA
ARB
ARE
ATE
AVA
AVO
AWA
BAD
BAG
BAL
BAN
BAS
BED
BEN
BIB
BIG
BIN
BIS
BOB
BOG
BOS
BOY
BUB
BUD
BUN
BUR
BUS
BUT
CAP
CIS
COD
COR
DAD
DAG
DAL
DAM
DAP
DEL
DEW
DID
DIG
DIM
DOG
DON
DOR
DOS
DOT
DUD
DUO
EAT
EEL
EKE
EME
ERE
EVE
EWE
EYE
FER
FIR
GAG
GAL
GAM
GAN
GAS
GAT
GEL
GET
GIG
GIP
GOT
GUM
GUT
GUV
HAH
HAY
HEH
HEP
HEY
HOP
HUH
KAY
LAP
LAS
LET
LIN
LIT
MAN
MAT
MAY
MEM
MHO
MIM
MIR
MIS
MOM
MON
MOP
MOR
MOT
MUM
MUS
NAP
NAW
NET
NEW
NIT
NOS
NOT
NOW
NUN
NUS
OHO
OOT
OXO
PAP
PAY
PEP
PER
PIP
PIS
PIT
POP
POT
PUP
PUS
PUT
RAT
RAY
ROT
SAT
SAW
SIS
SIT
SIX
SOS
SOW
TAT
TAV
TET
TEW
TIT
TOT
TOW
TUT
ULU
VAV
WAW
WOW
YAY