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Five words place B second and U third, and one of them does almost all the work.
Out of five, ABUSE is the single entry in general use. ABUTS is recognisable if you know the verb abut, and the rest are specialist.
Repeated letters barely feature in this group, one out of five, and the double Z closing ABUZZ is it. A repeat is easy to overlook on a list this short.
ABUNA is the title of the head of the Ethiopian church and ABUNE is a Scots form of above. Neither is a word you would reach for, though both are valid entries here.
Five of the five open with A, so the first box is settled the moment you confirm the pair.
Not always, but it is the one to try first. The others here are rare enough that a puzzle built on them would be unusual.
ABUNA is an Ethiopian church title and ABUNE is Scots for above. They differ only in the last box, which makes them an awkward pair to separate.
It is the verb abut, meaning to border on or touch. A garden that abuts a field shares a boundary with it.
N takes the fourth box in two of the five, ahead of anything else. Even so the box stays close to evenly split.