Word Gallery

2 Letter Words

There are 134 words of two letters. 127 are playable in Scrabble or Words With Friends, 118 are in everyday use, and the highest scorer is za at 11 points.

Two-letter words are the most-consulted list in Scrabble. They are how you play alongside an existing word rather than through it, and they are what turns a blocked board into a scoring one. The full list is short enough to learn.

The words

All 134 of them, everyday words first.

Everyday words 118

Word-game words 9

Archaic and rare 7

What is in this list

Every word shows its Scrabble score, with the Words With Friends score on hover. Both are raw tile totals: bonus squares depend on where a word is placed, not on the word.

Words in total
134
Playable in Scrabble or Words With Friends
127 (95%)
Everyday words
118
Archaic or rare
7
Highest Scrabble score
za at 11
Average Scrabble score
3.9
Letters that turn up most
A 26%, E 22%, O 21%, I 15%, U 12%, M 10%

Questions

How many 2 letter words are there?
134 across the dictionaries this site merges. 127 of those are playable in a word game; the remaining 7 come from Webster's 1913 and are largely obsolete. 118 are everyday English, which is the number that matters if you are trying to think of one rather than validate one.
Which 2 letter word scores highest in Scrabble?
za, at 11 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. That is raw tile value, before any bonus square.
Are all of these valid in Scrabble?
96 of the 134 appear in ENABLE, the list Scrabble and Words With Friends programs validate against. Words outside it are shown last, dimmed and labelled, so you do not stake a turn on one.
What are the most common 2 letter words?
Ranked by how often they appear in ordinary English: of, to, in, is, on, by, it, or.

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