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3-Letter Words Starting with B

There are 77 three-letter words that start with B on Word.ws, from baa to bzz. The most common are but, big, bad, bit and buy.

Meanings from Wiktionary. Not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list.

All 77 three-letter words that start with B

BA

  • baa5n. The characteristic cry or bleating of a sheep or (broader) a sheep or...
  • bab7n. A baby.
  • bac7n. A broad, flat-bottomed ferryboat, usually worked by a rope.
  • bad6adj. Of low quality.
  • bae5n. Darling (term of endearment).
  • bag6n. A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open...
  • bah8interj. Expressing contempt, disgust, or bad temper.
  • bai5n. A marshy meadow in sub-Saharan Africa.
  • bak9n. A wooden clapper used in Korean courts and rituals.
  • bal5n. The surface of a mine.
  • bam7interj. Representing a loud noise or heavy impact.
  • ban5v. To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from...
  • bao5n. Any of various types of steamed bread or bun used in Chinese cuisine.
  • bap7n. A soft bread roll, originally from Scotland.
  • bar5n. A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform...
  • bat5n. Any flying mammal of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal...
  • bay8n. A body of water (especially the sea) contained by a concave shoreline.
  • baz14n. A metasyntactic variable used to stand for some unspecified entity...

BB

  • bbl7n. Volumes of crude oil pumped, stored, or sold (in bulk).

BC

  • bcc9v. To send something by blind carbon copy.

BE

  • bed6n. A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
  • bee5n. A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran...
  • beg6v. To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.
  • bel5n. A measure of relative power, defined as log₁₀(P ₁/P ₂), where P₁ and P₂...
  • ben5prep. In, into.
  • ber5n. A fruit-bearing tree (Ziziphus mauritiana); Indian jujube.
  • bes5n. A bronze coin of the Roman Republic, worth two thirds of an as.
  • bet5n. A wager, an agreement between two parties that a stake (usually money)...
  • bex12adj. Angry.
  • bey8n. A governor of a province or district in the Turkish (e.g. Ottoman)...
  • bez14n. The second tine of an antler's beam.

BI

  • bib7n. An item of clothing for people (especially babies) tied around their...
  • bid6v. To issue a command; to tell.
  • bif8n. A public washroom.
  • big6adj. Of great size, large.
  • bih8n. A bitch.
  • bim7n. A woman.
  • bin5n. A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
  • bio5n. A short section of a user profile that contains information about the...
  • bip7v. To make or cause to make a short beeping or blipping sound.
  • bis5adv. Twice; showing that something is, or is to be, repeated, such as a...
  • bit5n. A small amount of something.
  • bix12n. Biscuits.
  • biz14n. Business, especially showbusiness.

BL

  • bly8n. Likeness; resemblance; look aspect; species; character.

BO

  • boa5n. Any of a group of large American snakes, of the genus Boa, subfamily...
  • bob7v. To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly...
  • bod6n. The body.
  • bog6n. An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms...
  • boh8interj. An exclamation used to startle or frighten.
  • boi5n. A male bottom (i.e. submissive partner), defined not by junior age, but...
  • bok9adj. Keen or willing.
  • bol5n. Bolognese.
  • boo5interj. A loud exclamation intended to scare someone. Usually used when one has...
  • bop7n. A very light smack, blow or punch.
  • bor5n. Man (not used for children).
  • bot5n. The larva of a botfly, which infests the skin of various mammals...
  • bow8n. A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material...
  • box12n. A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.
  • boy8n. A male child.

BP

  • bps7n. Baud rate.

BR

  • bra5n. An item of clothing, usually underwear worn to support the breasts.
  • bro5n. Brother (a male sibling).
  • brr5interj. Used to express being cold, to show shivering.
  • bru5n. Bro; bra; term of address for a man.

BU

  • bub7n. An alcoholic malt liquor, especially beer.
  • bud6n. A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
  • bug6n. An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”).
  • buk9n. A traditional Korean drum.
  • bum7n. The buttocks.
  • bun5n. A small bread roll that is sweetened or spiced.
  • bur5n. A rough, prickly husk around the seeds or fruit of some plants.
  • bus5n. A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads.
  • but5prep. Apart from, except (for), excluding.
  • buy8v. To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods.

BY

  • bye8n. The position of a person or team in a tournament or competition who...

BZ

  • bzz23interj. The buzzing sound of a bee, wasp, etc.

Questions about these words

How many three-letter words that start with B are there?
Word.ws lists 77 three-letter words that start with B.
What are common three-letter words that start with B?
but, big, bad, bit, buy, boy, bed and box.
Which of the three-letter words that start with B has the highest letter score?
bzz scores 23 points with the standard letter tile values.

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Word lists and meanings adapted from the Wiktionary entry of each word. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out names, abbreviations, misspellings and offensive words, and ordered the most common words by how often they appear in English (wordfreq). Meanings from Wiktionary; this is not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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