Words containing BU

Every word in the dictionary with BU somewhere inside it, in that order and side by side — 2,189 of 172,823.

Words
2,189
Everyday
491in the size-ranked core
Longest
21buckminsterfullerenes
Shortest
39 words tie

Showing the first 300 of 2,189, everyday words first and alphabetical inside each group. Use the finder with a length filter to reach the rest.

What is in this list

The longest is buckminsterfullerenes at 21 letters.

They run from 3 to 21 letters; 365 of them have 7 letters, more than any other length.

491 of them — 22% — are in the everyday tier; the rest are filed as rarer.

Every one of them contains each of B and U.

The one furthest down the tiers is bureaucratising, filed in the unranked list.

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Sequences next to BU

The same two letters at the edges

Ordered everyday words first, then alphabetical inside each group — the same rule on every list here. At most 300 are printed on one page.