Scrabble/Two-Letter Words
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Having a knowledge of all of the two-letter words will greatly improve your Scrabble gameplay, either when you need to build off an existing tile to form a new word, or at the end of the game when you have two or three tiles left and need to dump them off as quickly as possible. Two-letter words are also very useful when playing a new word parallel (alongside, above, or beneath) to an existing word.
Tournament Word List (TWL) 2-letter words
[edit | edit source]There are 107 acceptable 2-letter words listed in the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 6th Edition (OSPD6), and the Official Tournament and Club Word List (OTCWL, or simply, TWL):
- AA, AB, AD, AE, AG, AH, AI, AL, AM, AN, AR, AS, AT, AW, AX, AY, AO
- BA, BE, BI, BO, BY
- DA, DE, DO
- ED, EF, EH, EL, EM, EN, ER, ES, ET, EW, EX
- FA, FE
- GI, GO
- HA, HE, HI, HM, HO
- ID, IF, IN, IS, IT
- JO
- KA, KI
- LA, LI, LO
- MA, ME, MI, MM, MO, MU, MY
- NA, NE, NO, NU
- OD, OE, OF, OH, OI, OK, OM, ON, OP, OR, OS, OW, OX, OY
- PA, PE, PI, PO
- QI
- RE
- SH, SI, SO
- TA, TE, TI, TO
- UH, UM, UN, UP, US, UT
- WE, WO
- XI, XU
- YA, YE, YO
- ZA
Collins Scrabble Word (CSW) 2-letter words
[edit | edit source]There are 20 2-letter words that are acceptable in only CSW, making a total of 127 CSW-acceptable 2-letter words:
- CH
- DI
- EA, EE
- FY
- GU
- IO
- JA
- KO, KY
- NY
- OB, OO, OU
- ST
- UG, UR
- YU
- ZE, ZO
Note: PH was removed from CSW in 2007.