two

1. 1.

   being one more than one

   “he received two messages”

   Synonyms2ii

   Similarcardinal

Other forms of two

plural

twoes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about two

What does two mean?

two means "the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in two?

two has 1 syllable: two. In IPA it is /ˈtu/.

What is another word for two?

Close synonyms include 2, II, deuce, deuce, 2. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is two a common word?

two is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with two?

11 words rhyme with two. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.