Which two letters of alphabet always comes together in spell?

Q is a tricky alphabet.
Scrabble players are acutely aware that Q is a tricky letter. To use a Q in the game, a player must also find an available U The fact that Q is the second most rarely used letter in the alphabet certainly doesn’t make using Q any easier.


Q and U alphabet comes together in a spell because it sounds same together. From the listed some words we can understand like-

How do Q and U work together?

In English, QU is always used as a pair of letters representing a single speech sound for the sound /kw/ (a voiceless labiovelar stop). 'Q's pairing with U is a Latin invention that has its origin in Greek. The letter Koppa, which Q is based on, would appear before a rounded vowel where otherwise a sound like /k/ or /g/ would be used. But, a few other letters, like C, also designated the same sound but in different letter combinations. As C gradually came to represent more and more of these instances, Q became primarily dependent on U to express any sound at all. This is quite a quibble for a full-fledged member of the Latin (now English) alphabet.

Q without U is used to represent sounds not often found in English but typical in Semitic languages. Loan words such as Qur’an and Iraq are examples of Q’s guttural /k/ sound.


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