Words with the [ɹ] sound
Alveolar approximant; curl or bunch the tongue.
Common spellings: r. Examples: red, car.
- brigham
- castro
- centralized
- charmed
- contracting
- cords
- disciplinary
- discrepancy
- extremes
- frantic
- gerry
- handwriting
- hoarse
- incorporating
- marathi
- mournful
- outcry
- partisans
- porto
- preachers
- precaution
- precedent
- predictions
- racist
- radiance
- razor
- recaptured
- recoil
- rejoice
- restrictive
- retractable
- retreats
- revered
- routines
- ruthless
- screams
- seaport
- shareholder
- sherry
- sinatra
- squarely
- starch
- theodora
- truelove
- york's
- afrikaans
- barricades
- braid
- cruisers
- daybreak
- extracts
- flare
- friedman
- frosty
- frustration
- haircut
- harmonies
- improvisation
- inflammatory
- mangrove
- marcel
- mariners
- markedly
- mortally
- nara
- narrower
- orderly
- orthogonal
- peering
- perseverance
- prep
- processors
- radicals
- raided
- raoul
- realms
- reflex
- retrospective
- rewrite
- rewritten
- rover
- sarcastic
- smarter
- songwriters
- sprinkled
- stroking
- there'll
- traveler
- trod
- acorns
- admiring
- airlock
- airplanes
- arboretum
- artisans
- assurances
- barnett
- bodyguards
- borneo
- brevity