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5-Letter Words Starting with BUR

There are 17 five-letter words that start with BUR on Word.ws, from burek to burst. The most common are burst, burnt, burke, burgh and burly.

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

All 17 five-letter words that start with BUR

  • burek11n. A type of baked or fried filled pastry of the former Ottoman Empire.
  • burgh11n. A small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to...
  • burin7n. A chisel with a sharp point, used for engraving; a graver.
  • burka11n. A dress made from felt or karakul (the short curly fur of young lambs...
  • burke11v. To murder by suffocation.
  • burle7n. A cold north wind that blows in the winter in south-central France.
  • burly10adj. Large, well-built, and muscular.
  • burnt7adj. Damaged or injured by fire or heat.
  • burny10adj. Tending to burn.
  • buron7n. A traditional Auvergne shepherd's hut with a thatched roof, or a rustic...
  • burqa16n. An enveloping Central Asian garment which covers the whole body...
  • burra7adj. Big or important, used as a respectful honorific.
  • burro7n. A small donkey, especially when used as a pack animal or one that is...
  • burry10adj. Abounding in burs.
  • bursa7n. Any of the many small fluid-filled sacs located at the point where a...
  • burse7n. A purse.
  • burst7v. To break from internal pressure.
4 rare five-letter words that start with BUR

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with BUR are there?
Word.ws lists 17 five-letter words that start with BUR, plus 4 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with BUR?
burst, burnt, burke, burgh, burly, bursa, burka and burqa.
Which of the five-letter words that start with BUR has the highest letter score?
burqa scores 16 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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