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Programming languages with 3 letters
Stuck on a crossword or a word game? 22 programming languages have exactly 3 letters, from “ABC” to “Zig”.
Programming languages that are 3 letters long
- ABC
- Ada
- APL
- Awk
- Boo
- CLU
- Coq
- Elm
- JCL
- Joy
- Lua
- Nim
- Ook
- PHP
- Red
- Roc
- RPG
- SAS
- SQL
- Tcl
- VBA
- Zig
About this list
- 22 of the 178 programming languages have exactly 3 letters (12%).
- Most start with A (4), R (3) and C (2).
- Only names of one word are counted, and only their letters: spaces, hyphens and apostrophes are not.
Quick answers
- What are some three-letter programming languages?
- 22 of the 178 programming languages in Icillion have exactly 3 letters, for example PHP, SQL and Lua.
- Which three-letter programming languages start with A?
- A is the most common first letter here, with 4 names, such as ABC, Ada, APL and Awk.
Programming languages by first letter
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