2 letter words

Every word of exactly 2 letters in the dictionary this site is built from — 96 of them. No 2-letter word opens with B, C, D, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z.

Words

96

Everyday

44in the size-ranked core

Longest

296 words tie

Shortest

296 words tie

Every one of them has 2 letters.

44 of them — 46% — are in the everyday tier; the rest are filed as rarer.

The letter most of them carry is A: 26 of the 96 words, 27%.

The one furthest down the tiers is ay, filed in the unranked list.

• A16
• E10
• O12

• A11
• E11
• O12

Ordered everyday words first, then alphabetical inside each group — the same rule on every list here. At most 300 are printed on one page.