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BUTS

4 letters

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Classic 1 pts
Big 1 pts
Super Big 1 pts

BUTS is a valid 4-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic, 1 in Big, and 1 in Super Big Boggle.

BUTS root BUT-s

Word family

BUT 1 BUTTING-ting 5 BUTTED-ted 3
preposition
  1. Apart from, except (for), excluding.
    • Everyone but Father left early.
    • I like everything but that.
    • Nobody answered the door when I knocked, so I had no choice but to leave.
  2. Outside of.
    • Away but the hoose and tell me whae's there.
adverb
  1. literarypoeticMerely, only, just, no more than.
    • Christmas comes but once a year, so we can but wait till then.
  2. AustraliaGeordieScotlandconjunctiveThough, however.
    • I'll have to go home early but.
  3. Used to repeat an adverb for emphasis; simply; just; absolutely.
    • I would never, but never do such a thing!
conjunction
  1. However, although, nevertheless, on the other hand (introducing a clause contrary to prior belief or in contrast with the preceding clause or sentence).
    • She is very old but still attractive.
    • She’s welcomed them but been rude to us.
    • You told me I could do that, but she said that I could not.
  2. On the contrary, rather (as a regular adversative conjunction, introducing a word or clause in contrast or contradiction with the preceding negative clause or sentence).
    • I am not rich but [I am] poor. Not John but Peter went there.
    • It’s not so much that we don’t wanna go, but I just haven’t time.
  3. colloquialUsed at the beginning of a sentence to express opposition to a remark.
    • But I never said you could do that!
  4. Except that (introducing a subordinate clause which qualifies a negative statement); also, (archaic) with omission of the subject of the subordinate clause, acting as a negative relative, "except one that", "except such that".
    • I cannot but feel offended.
    • My kid does nothing but watch TV all day.
  5. colloquialUsed to link an interjection to the following remark as an intensifier.
    • Wow! But that's amazing!
  6. archaicWithout it also being the case that; unless that (introducing a necessary concomitant).
    • It never rains but it pours
    • I never hear this song but I think of you.
  7. obsoleteExcept with; unless with; without.
  8. obsoleteOnly; solely; merely.
  9. obsoleteUntil.
  10. obsoleteThat.
noun
  1. An instance of using the word "but"; an objection or caveat.
    • It has to be done—no ifs, ands, or buts.
    • But—and this is a big but—you have to come home by sundown.
  2. ScotlandThe outer room of a small two-room cottage.
  3. A limit; a boundary.
  4. The end; especially the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end; the butt.
verb
  1. archaicUse the word "but".
    • But me no buts.