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Words starting with BU

Every word in the dictionary whose first 2 letters are BU — 1,085 of 172,823.

Words
1,085
Everyday
322in the size-ranked core
Longest
21buckminsterfullerenes
Shortest
39 words tie

Showing the first 300 of 1,085, everyday words first and alphabetical inside each group. The longer openings below cut this list into readable pieces.

What is in this list

The longest is buckminsterfullerenes at 21 letters.

They run from 3 to 21 letters; 247 of them have 7 letters, more than any other length.

322 of them — 30% — 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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Longer openings that begin with BU

Elsewhere

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