Words with the [ɹ] sound

Alveolar approximant; curl or bunch the tongue.

Common spellings: r. Examples: red, car.

• growing
• grown
• growth
• guard
• guitar
• hair
• hard
• hardly
• harry
• hear
• heart
• henry
• here
• improved
• increase
• increased
• increasing
• industrial
• industry
• instruments
• interest
• interested
• interesting
• interior
• irish
• large
• largely
• larger
• largest
• library
• lyrics
• march
• mark
• marked
• marriage
• married
• marry
• mars
• mary
• material
• materials
• metropolitan
• near
• nearby
• nearest
• nearly
• necessary
• ontario
• pair
• parents
• park
• parliament
• part
• parties
• parts
• party
• period
• poetry
• poor
• practice
• pre
• prepared
• presence
• president
• press
• pressure
• pretty
• previous
• previously
• price
• primarily
• primary
• prime
• prince
• princess
• principal
• principle
• prior
• prison
• private
• prize
• probably
• problem
• problems
• produced
• producer
• product
• professional
• professor
• program
• programming
• programs
• prominent
• property
• proposed
• protection
• proved
• provide
• provides
• pure