The complete list of all valid two-letter words in Scrabble, with definitions. Master these to dramatically improve your Scrabble score.
Two-letter words are the foundation of advanced Scrabble play. There are exactly 107 valid two-letter words in the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (OSPD) and Tournament Word List (TWL). Knowing them lets you squeeze plays into tight spaces, hook onto existing words, and score big with high-value tiles.
Here are all 107 valid two-letter Scrabble words:
AA (rough lava), AB (abdominal muscle), AD (advertisement), AE (one, Scottish), AG (agriculture), AH (exclamation), AI (three-toed sloth), AL (Indian tree), AM (first person singular), AN (indefinite article), AR (letter R), AS (similarly), AT (preposition), AW (exclamation), AX (chopping tool), AY (yes), BA (Egyptian soul), BE (to exist), BI (bisexual), BO (body odor), BY (past),
DA (father), DE (of), DO (to perform), ED (education), EF (letter F), EH (what?), EL (elevated train), EM (typographic unit), EN (typographic unit), ER (hesitation sound), ES (letter S), ET (past tense of eat), EW (exclamation of disgust), EX (former partner), FA (musical note), FE (Hebrew letter), FI (musical note), GO (to move),
HA (exclamation), HE (male pronoun), HI (greeting), HM (thinking sound), HO (exclamation), ID (part of psyche), IF (condition), IN (inside), IS (third person singular), IT (third person neuter), JO (sweetheart), KA (Egyptian spirit), KI (life energy), LA (musical note), LI (Chinese unit), LO (look!), MA (mother), ME (first person object), MI (musical note), MM (sound of approval), MO (moment), MU (Greek letter), MY (possessive),
NA (not), NE (born as), NO (negative), NU (Greek letter), OD (overdose), OE (Scottish grandchild), OF (belonging to), OH (exclamation), OI (exclamation), OM (sacred syllable), ON (upon), OP (operation), OR (conjunction), OS (bone), OW (pain exclamation), OX (bovine), OY (exclamation of dismay),
PA (father), PE (Hebrew letter), PI (Greek letter), PO (chamber pot), QI (vital energy), RE (musical note), SH (be quiet), SI (musical note), SO (therefore), TA (thank you), TE (musical note), TI (musical note), TO (toward), UH (hesitation), UM (hesitation), UN (one), UP (above), US (plural pronoun), UT (musical note),
WE (plural pronoun), WO (woe), XI (Greek letter), XU (Vietnamese coin), YA (you), YE (you, archaic), YO (call for attention), ZA (pizza), ZIT... wait, that's three letters. ZA is the key Z two-letter word.
Learn these first — they use high-value letters and score big: QI (10 pts + bonuses), ZA (11 pts + bonuses), XI (9 pts), XU (9 pts), JO (9 pts), OX (9 pts), EX (9 pts), AX (9 pts).
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