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Default Counting one Character as a String

Hi I am new to excel and have a problem I would really love help with.

I have multiple characters in one cell separated by spaces. I am trying to count the number of times the letter B appears by itself and not next to any other letter.

eg my data is like: B2 B4 B6 DR1 DR2 DR3 DPB1 DPB2

I only want to count B by itself (ie this would be 3 in above string)

I have used the array formula:
=SUM(LEN(K2)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(K2,"B","")))/LEN("B")

This works great for all other letters but because I have B and DPB, I get a count of both of these. However, the array formula does work for the DPB entries as I just input "DP".

Is there a clever person out there that can help!!!