7-letter words with B as the 2nd letter and U as the 3rd letter

The fixed B-U pair leaves a compact set: just 10 tournament-dictionary words fit, and every one begins with A. The recognizable forms include abusive, abusing, and abusers; entries such as abulias, abusage, and abusion are less familiar. Three matches rank among the top 25,000 English words by frequency, leaving most of this pattern outside everyday vocabulary.

7-letter words with B as the 2nd letter and U as the 3rd letter

• Exactly 10 matches qualify, and all start with A: the visible frame is ABU____.
• Abusive, abusing, and abusers are the three entries in the top 25,000 English words by frequency.
• Abubble leads the score list at 13 points; abusive follows at 12.
• Collins includes all 10, while ENABLE and NWL2023 each include 8.
• Eight have definitions, but less familiar abusage and abusion are still dictionary entries.

The ten matching ABU words

The ten matches are abusive, abusing, abusers, abutted, abubble, abulias, abusage, abusion, abuttal, and abutter. All share the ABU opening, so the two fixed letters do not distinguish them; use the remaining four letters and any known ending to sort candidates.

Ending letters split the set into seven groups: E appears three times and S twice, while D, G, L, N, and R appear once each. An E clue keeps abusive, abubble, and abutter in play; a D clue points straight to abutted. Only three matches are common by the frequency cutoff, so unfamiliar forms are expected.

How do scores and dictionaries compare?

For tile points, abubble tops this group at 13, then abusive at 12. Abusing, abutted, and abusage each score 10, matching the group's average; abusers, abulias, abuttal, abutter, and abusion each score 9. The 13-point leader is not an everyday word, so a high raw score alone does not make it easy to spot.

For 7-letter words with B as the 2nd letter and U as the 3rd letter, the O-second, U-third sibling pattern is far larger: 429 matches versus 10 here. Collins accepts all ten names, but ENABLE and NWL2023 accept eight apiece. Check your game's dictionary before relying on an entry; abulias, abusage, and abusion are less intuitive than the ABU opening suggests.