Two crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Two” are EVEN, SIDE or HAND, with 4 letters. Below are 93 answers from 3 to 15 letters, best match first in each length, then what each top answer means and how to tell them apart.

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The best answers, explained

FLY 3 letters · noun

two-winged insects characterized by active flight

EVEN 4 letters · adjective

divisible by two

DEUCE 5 letters · noun

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number

BETTER 6 letters · noun

the superior one of two alternatives “chose the better of the two”

COMPANY 7 letters · noun

small military unit; usually two or three platoons

CARDINAL 8 letters · noun

(Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes

CHEMISTRY 9 letters · noun

the way two individuals relate to each other “their chemistry was wrong from the beginning — they hated each other”

COMPROMISE 10 letters · noun

a middle way between two extremes

COOPERATIVE 11 letters · adjective

involving the joint activity of two or more “a cooperative effort”

AMALGAMATION 12 letters · noun

the combination of two or more commercial companies

CONTRADICTION 13 letters · noun

opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas

RECONCILIATION 14 letters · noun

getting two things to correspond “the reconciliation of his checkbook and the bank statement”

PROPORTIONALITY 15 letters · noun

a ratio of two quantities that is constant

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, EVEN, SIDE, HAND, STEP, BAND and PAIR all fit. The first letter settles most of it: E → EVEN · S → SIDE, STEP · H → HAND · B → BAND · P → PAIR. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 5 squares, DEUCE, THREE, SPACE, LOWER, PLANE and UPPER all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: D → DEUCE · T → THREE · S → SPACE · L → LOWER · P → PLANE · U → UPPER. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 3 squares, FLY, ODD, DUO and TEG all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: F → FLY · O → ODD · D → DUO · T → TEG. Fill in that crossing answer first.

Other forms of this clue

Clues often use another form of the word, and the answer then takes the same form: “twos” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “two” means

• noun: the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
• noun: one of the four playing cards in a deck that have two spots
• adjective: being one more than one (“he received two messages”)

A clue usually points at one of these senses, so the right answer is the one that matches the sense the puzzle means: check it against the crossing words.

About these answers

We match the clue against our own thesaurus and dictionary (Open English WordNet): words that mean the same as TWO, and words whose definition is TWO. We don't copy answers from newspaper puzzles, so a clue that leans on trivia or wordplay may need the crossing letters instead.