If you tried to write down all the two-letter words you can think of in your working vocabulary, you`d probably struggle to get a lot over 20. Try! I`m waiting for you. Ready? Did you understand that? Abbreviations are not words, but only abbreviated versions of words, rather for use in written form and usually contain a period, such as ct., mt. and St. Their spoken versions are pronounced with their original long versions (count, mount, road). Well, if you`re really such a Scrabble nerd, you`re in luck! I`ll introduce you to the full list of Scrabble`s 2-letter words with their definitions (and if you can extend it with an „S“, an „ES“ or something weird (EEN for example). But let`s start with three really good reasons why learning these words will definitely make you want to win more games right away. It should be easy to remember the 3 precious new words, bo = slang for friend? But I thought slang wasn`t allowed in Scrabble? Knowing all the two-letter words will greatly improve your Scrabble gameplay, either if you need to build an existing tile to form a new word, or at the end of the game if you still have two or three tiles left and need to throw them away as quickly as possible. Two-letter words are also very useful when playing a new word in parallel (alongside, above, or below) an existing word. OSPD3 listed 97 2-letter words, but [7/21/99] – Although OSPD3 lists 97, Dan Brinkley, director of the Columbus Ohio Scrabble Club #494, told me that „DA“ is no longer acceptable (considered foreign) in the tournament, reducing the number to an easy-to-remember 96! I have therefore removed „DA“ from the following lists. (The „s-shape“ of „DE“, „DES“, is no longer accepted either.) TWL replaced OSPD3 as the tournament`s „bible“. See note at the end.

NOTE: DA has returned with a new meaning in OSPD5 and is now acceptable again! If you look at it this way, you should be able to memorize all 105 words with 2 letters with just a few minutes of practice a day for a week. The history of dot-com, grunge, and other words from the nineties There`s no doubt you need to know all 107 if you want to play competitive Scrabble®. Not just to use them yourself, but to see if your opponent is actually using a legal word. The following words in this list are not considered words in the North American game: If you`re like me, you`re probably going to babble something defensible about the 2-letter word list you`ve memorized for hours because you`re such a Scrabble nerd. This list contains 124 two-letter words derived from SOWPODS, anagrams of the acronyms OSPD (Official Scrabble Players Dictionary – North American) and OSW (Official Scrabble Words – British). This list is more for international Scrabble games and world competitions. Here are some of the words we are currently looking for a place in the dictionary. There are 20 2-letter words that are only acceptable in CSW, making a total of 127 2-letter words acceptable to CSW: Frowny recently made a triumphant return to our dictionary.

The word was first defined by us in the 1864 edition of our complete dictionary („Frowning; sullen. Rare“), but was withdrawn for the 1961 edition. It was removed because not enough people used it, and dictionaries usually need a word to keep a certain timeliness in a language in order to retain their valuable properties. So do your part to keep frowns alive; Use this word in your SCRABBLE games, your seminar papers, your front-telegraphed dispatches, your tear-stained letters. If you go through this list over and over again and play a lot of Scrabble games, you`ll be amazed at how quickly two-letter words stay in your brain. To help your memory, try to weave the words into an unforgettable story. Or even a song. Here is a list of all the two-letter words allowed in Scrabble. With each word, I inserted the word part of the language (italics), followed by its meaning, inflections and spelling variants (if any, of course). Scrabble games in North America use OWL (or TWL), which translates to „Official Tournament and Word List.“ It is used for competitive play, and there are only 101 acceptable words with two letters.

Home and school games in the United States and Canada also contain these 101 words in the OSPD (Official Scrabble Players Dictionary). 8 are names for the letters of the English alphabet (a f l m n r s x). (You can make a mnemonic phrase for this, like „A movie buff may need very strong X-rays“ or something similar you can call to remember.) With the exception of EX (which of course requires „-es“), they all take „-s“: (Thanks to Nikki Wei for adding the letter „L“, (EL) to this list of letters. OSPD lists ELL only with the meaning „the letter L“, where „elevated railway“ is used for EL below, but OSPD displays only one meaning per word.) But don`t stop at two-letter words! Before you go, be sure to grab a copy of this cool freebie. Ok, you`ve memorized the list of valid 2-letter words, but if you`re challenged after playing, can you smugly demonstrate your dominant intellect by spitting out the right definition? A thorough command of two-letter words is one of the most important skills required to create a successful and incomprehensible SCRABBLE board. The ability to add seemingly random letters to existing ones allows a player much more latitude to place their words on the board, and will upset opponents who think the game should be played with words they know.