What do these 2-letter words have in common?:ĪH, AL, AS, BA, BO, BY, IN, IS, IT, LA, MA, MI, MU, NA, NEĪs of March 1998, club and tournament play in North America use an unexpurgated lexicon, including all "Guaranteed" to add an average of 50 points to your game!
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How to practice? Study these charts, take a pencil and paper and try to write out the 105 words! Keep doing it till you can. Looking at it this way, you ought to be able to remember the 105 2-letter words with just a few minutes practice each day for a week. Only these 14 hard "foreign" words to memorize These may take a little memorizing:ġ1 are reversible: AH/ HA, EH/HE, ER/RE, OH/ HO, OW/WO, OY/ YO, TA/AT, UM/MU You may not think of them as "real words", but the OSPD does. OSPD only lists ELL with the meaning 'the letter L', using 'elevated railway' for EL, below, but OSPD only shows one meaning per word.)Ģ0 are interjections. (Thanks to Nikki Wei for adding the letter "L", (EL) to this letter list. (You can make a mnemonic sentence for this, like " A film lover may need really strong xrays" or something similar you can call on to help you remember.)Įxcept for EX (which naturally requires "-es") they all take "-s": Though DO and SO are too common to think about, they're also among theįor the notes of the scale, and they all take "-s" (+ OSPD5 added TE as the equivalent of TI):Ĩ are names for letters of the English alphabet, (a f l m n r s x). Organizing the "hard words" by meaning 9 high value words with J K Q X Z It should be easy to remember the 3 new valuable words, There is a 2-letter J-word: sweetheart (that doesn't take an -s).Īnd there is an important set of 5 X-words: (However, many of these are uncommon when "-s" is added, so they'll have to be studied later. (It doesn't necessarily mean that it's the plural form of the word - only that adding "-s" makes a legal word.)Ģ6 of them are in gray, as they are common words which don't have to be learned: The table below shows them all, along with which ones can take the addition of "-s". Not just to use them yourself, but to recognize whether your opponent is in fact using a legal word. There is no question but that you must know all 107 if you want to play competitive Scrabble ®.
NOTE: DA has returned with a new meaning in OSPD5 and is now acceptable again!
(The "s-form" of "DE", "DES", is also no longer accepted.) TWL has replaced OSPD3 as the tournament "bible". OSPD3 listed 97 2-letter words, but - Although the OSPD3 lists 97, Dan Brinkley, Director of Columbus Ohio Scrabble Club #494 has informed me that "DA" is no longer acceptable in tournament play, (being regarded as foreign), bringing the number down to an easy-to-remember 96! I've therefore removed "DA" from the lists below. These changes should revolutionize scores, making the Q and Z much easier to play. Among these are five new 2-letter words, FE, KI, OI, QI, ZA, of major importance in the game. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary Fourth Edition ( OSPD4) was published in 2005, with "4,000 new entries".
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(DA has returned, after its homonym had been earlier removed (see below), with a new meaning, and its plural, DAs. Among these are four new 2-letter words, DA, GI, PO, TE. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary Fifth Edition ( OSPD5) was published in 2014, with "5,000 new entries".
used to express disgust, and OK, (okay) alright, neither taking the addition of -s. Among these are two new 2-letter words, EW, interj. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary Sixth Edition ( OSPD6) was published in 2018, with "hundreds of new words". Home Learning the 2-letter Words Steve Trussel The 96 101 105 107 acceptable 2-letter words! Update! 2018 OSPD6! There are now 107 acceptable 2-letter words.
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