Scrabble/Two-Letter Words

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

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

Collins Scrabble Words (CSW) two letter words

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.