In the previous weeks, I published blog posts featuring the playable two-letter words that begin with a, b, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, and l. Today’s post features the playable two-letter words beginning with m, n, o, and p. Learning these two-letter words, as well as the other two-letter words in the alphabet, will enable you to see more options for play and increase the number of points you earn in a single turn.
M, by the way, is the most versatile consonant. In the first position, m pairs with every vowel: ma, me, mi, mo, mu, and also my. In the second position, m pairs with every vowel except i: am, em, om, um.
- ma: a mother
- me: a singular objective pronoun
- mi: a tone of the diatonic scale
- mm: an expression of assent
- mo: a moment
- mu: a Greek letter
- my: a first-person possessive adjective
- na: no, not
- ne: born with the name of (also nee)
- no: a negative answer
- nu: a Greek letter
- od: a hypothetical force
- oe: a whirlwind off the Faero Islands
- of: originating from
- oh: an exclamation of surprise
- oi: an expression of dismay (also oy)
- om: a sound used as a mantra
- on: the batsman’s side in cricket
- op: a style of abstract art dealing with optics
- or: the heraldic color gold
- os: a bone
- ow: used to express pain
- ox: a clumsy person
- oy: an expression of dismay (also oi)
- pa: a father
- pe: a Hebrew letter
- pi: a Greek letter
Next Up
Wordplay Day! To prepare for class, revisit the Dictionary and World Builder pages on the Scrabble website, the Merriam-Webster Scrabble Word Finder page, and review the blog posts devoted to Scrabble.
Coming Soon
For Monday, read the section of Writing Analytically devoted to “Nine Basic Writing Errors” (424-44). In class, you will read a designated classmate’s literacy narrative on his or her blog, and compose a response that you will submit as a comment on the writer’s post. Bring your laptop to class, and also be sure to bring Writing Analytically and your journal with your completed exercise on Tom Junod‘s “The Falling Man.” Do not remove the exercise from your journal before class. I will not collect the assignment; I may simply conduct a check for it while you and your classmates are working on your blog exercise.
Jane Lucas 