Words with the [ɹ] sound
Alveolar approximant; curl or bunch the tongue.
Common spellings: r. Examples: red, car.
- repel
- resent
- residue
- respiration
- reviving
- riff
- robberies
- robert's
- romantically
- rooney
- russ
- russell's
- sentry
- shapiro
- shreveport
- smear
- sparingly
- sprinter
- sterile
- strapped
- streamlined
- tatars
- terrors
- throbbing
- treadmill
- tripod
- troubling
- truthful
- unorthodox
- vertebrate
- writers'
- wrung
- abstracted
- airspace
- apprentices
- archway
- argus
- arthropods
- articulate
- atrium
- baccalaureate
- bardell
- bismarck
- bradbury
- bravest
- bribery
- carling
- cashier's
- clarified
- crowley
- curing
- demographics
- dentistry
- discoverer
- doorknob
- dorothy's
- draughts
- esquire
- fractional
- france's
- granville
- greco
- grind
- grover
- harbors
- horne
- hysterical
- igor
- kerosene
- kilmarnock
- mariner
- maverick
- mcbride
- mori
- mortuary
- o'hara
- parliamentarian
- portfolios
- portico
- pressurized
- pretends
- primal
- profusion
- propagate
- prophetic
- quaternary
- racetrack
- radiating
- rae
- rankin
- reassured
- redesign
- rockwell
- shortstop
- shrouded
- spartans
- staircases
- strives
- stroked
- subordinates