- Average remaining
- 1.0
- Worst branch
- 1
- Information
- 1.0 bits
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Five-letter words starting with BUT
Our Wordle guess list has 10 five-letter words that start with BUT.
10 matching words
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This list has 10 Wordle guesses; 2 are possible answers. The calculator compared 14,786 Wordle guesses against those 2 answers. Possible-answer status helps narrow a puzzle, but does not predict which word Wordle will choose.
Past Wordle answers: BUTTE (July 16, 2026).
AAHED does not fit this page's clues. BUTCH keeps every clue shown here and leaves an average remainder of 1.0 (1 in its worst branch). Check any additional yellow-position clues in the full Solver.
No obvious one-slot trap. The possible answers do not form a three-word-or-larger family that differs in only one position.
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Where these letters usually land
The BUT prefix fixes these letters in positions 1, 2 and 3; the figures below show whether extra copies appear elsewhere.
- B most often the 1st letter (100% of these words).
- U most often the 2nd letter (100% of these words), also 4th (10%).
- T most often the 3rd letter (100% of these words), also 4th (30%), 5th (10%).
Word notes
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BUTCH
Very masculine, with a masculine appearance or attitude.
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
BUTTE
An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top.
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Past Wordle answer: July 16, 2026.
BUTTS
plural of butt
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
BUTEO
Any of the broad-winged soaring raptors of the genus Buteo.
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
BUTES
plural of Bute
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
BUTLE
Alternative form of buttle.
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
BUTOH
A form of Japanese contemporary dance.
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
BUTTY
A sandwich, usually with a hot or cold savoury filling buttered in a barmcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg.
“Let's have a bacon butty!”
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
BUTUT
A unit of currency, worth one hundredth of a Gambian dalasi.
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
BUTYL
Any of four isomeric univalent hydrocarbon radicals, C₄H₉, formally derived from butane by the loss of a hydrogen atom.
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
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