A combination of an itemized list and a table

Question

Consider the following document with an itemized list with two words per item:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{itemize}
\item arbitrary, archipelago
\item bug, bit
\end{itemize}
\end{document}

This prints as follows:

I would like the second word on every item row to be a fixed distance apart, so that the outcome will look like this:

I can accomplish this effect with \hspace:

\item arbitrary,\hspace{4.2cm}archipelago
\item bug,\hspace{5cm}bit

but this is too much work and unwieldy, as the spaces need to be tailored for every combination of words.

I can use a table with textbullet:

\begin{tabular}{l@{\hskip 4cm}l}
 \textbullet\ arbitrary, & archipelago \\
 \textbullet\ bug, & bit \\
\end{tabular}

but the formatting is not the same as a list:

Note the distance of the bullet points from the left margin, the distance between the bullet points and the beginning of the text, and the distance between the rows.

Answer 1

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{listliketab}
\begin{document}

A tabular

\storestyleof{itemize}
\begin{listliketab}
\begin{tabular}{Lll}
\textbullet& arbitrary, & archipelago \\
\textbullet& bug,       & bit \\
\end{tabular}
\end{listliketab}

A list

\begin{itemize}
\item arbitrary
\item bug
\end{itemize}
\end{document}