2 Letter Words

Why two-letter words matter

Short words are the connective tissue of every tile game. They are what let you play alongside an existing word and score it in both directions at once, and they are the escape hatch when the board is tight and nothing long will fit. Learning the two-letter list is the single highest-return study in Scrabble and Words With Friends.

The list above is ranked by how common each word is in written English rather than alphabetically, using corpus frequency data. That means the words most likely to be accepted without an argument, and most likely to be useful, appear first.

Finding two-letter words from your own letters

Browsing a full list is useful for study, but during a game you need the intersection of the list and your rack. Enter your tiles into the finder above and set the length to 2; the results are every two-letter word your letters can actually build, ordered by points. Add a starting or ending letter if you are playing off a tile already on the board.