Basic Guidelines For English Spellings
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If you often play word games, then you’ll know how helpful two-letter words can be. Every English-speaker knows quite a few – am, an, as, at, and so on – but did you know that there over a hundred two-letter words?
Take a look at our list of two-letter words, which includes bo (a kind of fig tree), od (a supposed natural force), and yu (an ancient Chinese wine container), as well as many more well-known words.
aa | rough cindery lava |
ab | an abdominal muscle |
ad | an advertisement |
ag | S. African a general exclamation |
ah | an exclamation |
ai | the three-toed sloth |
am | the present tense of be |
an | a form of the indefinite article |
as | used to convey relative extent or degree |
at | expressing location or time |
aw | an exclamation |
ax | variant spelling of axe |
ay | variant spelling of aye |
ba | the soul, in Egyptian mythology |
be | to exist |
bi | bisexual |
bo | a kind of fig tree |
by | beside |
da | a person's father |
do | to perform an action |
dy | a type of sediment |
ee | dialect form of oh |
eh | an exclamation |
El | an elevated railway |
em | a measuring unit in printing |
en | a measuring unit in printing |
er | expressing doubt or hesitation |
ex | a former spouse or partner |
fa | a musical note |
Ga | a people in Ghana |
gi | judo jacket |
go | to move or travel |
ha | an exclamation |
he | a male person or animal |
hi | a greeting |
ho | an exclamation |
id | a part of the mind |
if | introducing a conditional clause |
in | within |
io | a North American moth |
is | the present tense of be |
it | a thing |
ja | S. African yes |
jo | Scottish, archaic a sweetheart |
Ju | a kind of Chinese pottery |
ka | the spirit, in Egyptian mythology |
ki | a plant of the lily family |
la | a musical note |
li | a Chinese unit of distance |
lo | archaic used to draw attention to something |
ma | a person's mother |
me | the objective case of the first-person pronoun I |
mi | a musical note |
mo | a moment |
mu | a Greek letter |
my | belonging to me |
né | originally called |
no | not any |
nu | a Greek letter |
ob | a type of gene |
od | a supposed natural force |
of | belonging to |
og | Australian, archaic a shilling |
oh | an exclamation |
oi | used to attract attention |
OK | used to express assent, agreement, etc. |
om | a sacred mantra |
on | supported by or covering |
op | an operation |
or | used to link alternatives |
os | a bone |
ou | a Hawaiian bird |
ow | expressing pain |
ox | a cow or bull |
oy | = oi |
Oz | Australia(n) |
pa | father |
pi | a Greek letter |
po | a chamber pot |
qi | the life force, in Chinese philosophy |
ra | a moraine, in Norway or Sweden |
re | a musical note |
ri | a Japanese unit of length |
se | a Chinese musical instrument |
si | = te |
so | therefore |
ta | thank you |
te | a musical note |
ti | = te |
to | expressing direction in relation to a location |
uh | expressing hesitation |
um | expressing hesitation |
up | towards a higher position |
us | the objective case of we |
Wa | a people on the borders of China and Burma |
we | oneself and other people |
Wu | a dialect of Chinese |
xi | a Greek letter |
xu | a Vietnamese unit of money |
ye | archaic the plural form of thou |
Yi | a people in parts of China |
yo | used as a greeting |
yu | an ancient Chinese wine container |