Can you name the two letter words (SOWPODS)?

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2 Letter Words (SOWPODS) Quiz

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Published: December 9th, 2008
Category: Language
Plays: 60,249

Tags: Letter Quizzes, sowed

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	Chiaprofessor:	Dec 9th, 2008 at 19:06 GMT	5 points
	More time on this one, too.

	Catherine_F:	Dec 9th, 2008 at 20:04 GMT	0 points
	118/124, doing the other one first definitely helped :)

	Annie:	Dec 9th, 2008 at 20:33 GMT	1 point
	Even thirty seconds would help!

	dcschmo:	Dec 9th, 2008 at 20:53 GMT	8 points
	As with the other game, it took about 3 minutes to do every consonant+vowel and vowel+consonant, and another 30 seconds to randomly guess the rest.

	Tony:	Dec 9th, 2008 at 22:30 GMT	2 points
	Man, this is obscure. Got em all, but that's because of mad fast typing and 26x26 letters, what's that, only 676 combos

	eln77:	Dec 10th, 2008 at 00:21 GMT	5 points
	Guessed all with 9 seconds remaining. Seems like the time is just perfect. This is basically a puzzle that rewards fast typing (but not too fast or the interface won't have time to recognize the word before you delete it and move to the next one!) The Scrabble one should be set to 5 minutes as well, since they're basically the same puzzle.

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	davidr:	Dec 11th, 2008 at 22:20 GMT	1 point
	@Tony: You can cut down to 256 combinations of consonant+vowel and vowel+anything, counting `Y' as a vowel if it's the second letter of the word. Plus a few consonant-consonant words that can be learnt as exceptions.

	SJ:	Dec 13th, 2008 at 02:50 GMT	2 points
	what about fi and fo as in "Fee Fi Fo Fum I smell the blood of an Englishman...." - from Jack and the Beanstalk

	matt_shaft:	Jan 13th, 2009 at 01:18 GMT	2 points
	Nice puzzle, I got 112/124. The SOWPODS version is kind of rough.

	DrumBum88:	Jan 13th, 2009 at 17:20 GMT	0 points
	Ran out of time with two more to go.

	vostok2:	Jan 18th, 2009 at 05:25 GMT	4 points
	"Do,Re,Mi" helped me out a lot

	jkd:	Jan 20th, 2009 at 18:25 GMT	3 points
	@SJ: It seems to me that your quote should be "Fee Fie Foe Fum", but how often does anyone read or write that story? More of an oral tradition.

	aasvogel:	Jan 24th, 2009 at 20:23 GMT	1 point
	I just guessed and then gave up

	Jack34789:	Jan 25th, 2009 at 03:59 GMT	2 points
	whats the difference between SOWPOD and OSPD

	Etheridge2:	Jan 30th, 2009 at 19:25 GMT	6 points
	They are the two official dictionaries of competative scrabble. In North America we use TWL (The Word List sometimes called TWL2 because it is the updated list) OSPD stands for Official Scrabble Players Dictionary) It is the same for the most part but it doesn't include "offensive words". SOWPODS is what they used to call the dictionary for competative Scrabble in the rest of the world, but they also recently updated their dictionary and it is now referred to as Collins though SOWPODS is commonly used though don't ask me what it stands for. There is always debate within the N. American Scrabble community over switching from TWL to SOWPODS/COLLINS (It has a much larger list of words.)

	jkd:	Feb 3rd, 2009 at 15:00 GMT	3 points
	@Jeremy: The link on this page to the SOWPODS list gives this explanation of the term: SOWPODS an anagram of two abbreviations: Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (OSPD) and Official Scrabble Words (OSW).

	zyf:	Mar 1st, 2009 at 03:30 GMT	7 points
	this is pointless, you just keep typing alphabet in order

	Paiev:	Mar 7th, 2009 at 06:15 GMT	2 points
	Got them all with 3 seconds left. As a TWL player, some of these SOWPODS words are funky o.O

	Ash:	Apr 18th, 2009 at 15:07 GMT	1 point
	wel borin quiz...

	indiekid:	Jun 4th, 2009 at 20:04 GMT	3 points
	you can tell people are guessing when the word "ag", a word nobody uses much, is more recognised than "on" or "so"!

	jacob17:	Jul 2nd, 2009 at 04:27 GMT	1 point
	damn. i got all but three. wouldve had those too if my computer hadn't glitched. all well.

	superpole2000:	Jul 6th, 2009 at 02:25 GMT	2 points
	This is ridiculous.

	trishtea:	Oct 2nd, 2009 at 15:59 GMT	1 point
	yes! got them all first time with 24seconds to spare :) ok so maybe i make too good use of these when i'm playing scrabble!

	svfox69:	Oct 17th, 2009 at 08:40 GMT	1 point
	I will just use http://scrabblecheat.com In this day and age I have no time to play by the rules.

	chris_t:	Oct 24th, 2009 at 21:27 GMT	1 point
	If you're a scrabble fan, you might find this quiz interesting: http://www.sporcle.com/games/chris_t/q_without_u_sowpods

	ashman:	Dec 30th, 2009 at 22:28 GMT	1 point
	I don't really get this quiz. How are some of these complete words? Aa? Ou? I've been speaking English for about 40 years now and I've never heard of those!

	vmarshall51:	Jan 27th, 2010 at 23:53 GMT	1 point
	ENGLISH two-letter words?

	moviegoer74:	Jan 29th, 2010 at 14:50 GMT	3 points
	Need about one more minute. I just physically couldn't type everythigng fast enough.

	tsneller:	Aug 6th, 2010 at 12:47 GMT	1 point
	hahahahahahahahahahaa.... good joke. (Hang on, are they actual words?)

	Briana83:	Oct 9th, 2010 at 19:11 GMT	1 point
	I don't type fast enough!

	Briana83:	Oct 9th, 2010 at 19:13 GMT	1 point
	Aa is lava, as contrasted with pahoehoe.

	CBRab89:	Jan 9th, 2011 at 00:17 GMT	2 points
	are these even words?

	a_dead_grunt:	Mar 14th, 2011 at 04:43 GMT	3 points
	Learning the two-letter words = Never losing a game of Scrabble again

	rennbj4:	Mar 23rd, 2011 at 20:26 GMT	1 point
	122!! Thank you, Scrabble!