Let $$w = w(x_1, \ldots , x_n)$$ be a non-trivial word of n-variables. The word map on a group G that corresponds to w is the map $$\widetilde{w}: G^n\rightarrow G$$ where $$\widetilde{w}((g_1, \ldots , g_n)) := w(g_1, \ldots , g_n)$$ for every sequence $$(g_1, \ldots , g_n)$$ . Let $$\mathcal G$$ be a simple and simply connected group which is defined and split over an infinite field K and let $$G =\mathcal G(K)$$ . For the case when $$w = w_1w_2 w_3 w_4$$ and $$w_1, w_2, w_3, w_4$$ are non-trivial words with independent variables, it has been proved by Hui et al. (Israel J Math 210:81–100, 2015) that $$G{\setminus } Z(G) \subset {{\text { Im}}}\,\widetilde{w}$$ where Z(G) is the center of the group G and $${{\text { Im}}}\, {\widetilde{w}}$$ is the image of the word map $$\widetilde{w}$$ . For the case when $$G = {{\text {SL}}}_n(K)$$ and $$n \ge 3$$ , in the same paper of Hui et al. (2015) it was shown that the inclusion $$G{\setminus } Z(G)\subset {{\text { Im}}}\,\widetilde{w}$$ holds for a product $$w = w_1w_2 w_3$$ of any three non-trivial words $$ w_1, w_2, w_3$$ with independent variables. Here we extent the latter result for every simple and simply connected group which is defined and split over an infinite field K except the groups of types $$B_2, G_2$$ .