two
/tu/number, noun
two is spelled T-W-O. The wrong spelling people search most is twpo: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 476 of all searches for the word. Two is a number meaning “A numerical value equal to 2; the number following one and preceding three”.
How many letters and syllables are in two?
| Letters | 3: T-W-O |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1,259 times per million words; the 87th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, twpo, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell two?
Two is spelled T-W-O. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 469 of the searches for two in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is two?
Two appears 1,259 times per million words in written English, the 87th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce two?
- UK /tu/
- UK [tʰu̟u]
- US /tu/
Two has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Back_ache-two.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-to.wav, En-us-two.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with two
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: too (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: number 2.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with two?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as two from its last stressed vowel (/u/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: tow, wot, owt.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of two
- tew
- twos plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does two mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
number
- 1
A numerical value equal to 2; the number following one and preceding three.
- 2
Describing a set or group with two elements.
noun
- 1
The digit/figure 2.
The number 2202 contains three twos.
- 2
USinformalA two-dollar bill.
- 3
A child aged two.
This toy is suitable for the twos and threes.
- 4
A playing card featuring two pips.
- 5
Two o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
- 6
Ellipsis of two shot.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Two in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | deux , billet de deux dollars |
| German | zwei (zwo, zween), zwoa , Zweier, Zweidollarschein , Zwei |
| Portuguese | dois, duas , cédula de dois dólares, nota de dois dólares |
| Spanish | dos |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does two come from?
From Middle English two, twa, from Old English twā, feminine and neuter of twēġen (whence twain), from Proto-West Germanic *twai-, from Proto-Germanic *twai, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).