Words with the [ɹ] sound
Alveolar approximant; curl or bunch the tongue.
Common spellings: r. Examples: red, car.
- cartwright
- carve
- cassandra
- cavaliers
- centrist
- contrive
- cramp
- crank
- craving
- darrow
- detrimental
- director's
- disgraceful
- dorsey
- drizzle
- drool
- elaborately
- formative
- grayish
- hardwick
- industrialist
- irrigated
- larkin
- larval
- leverage
- libretto
- londonderry
- managerial
- mentors
- merritt
- microorganisms
- murad
- northfield
- ores
- overcrowding
- parsonage
- pedigree
- pranks
- precede
- precursors
- profess
- quarles
- raggedy
- rainwater
- rappers
- raptors
- readable
- redoubled
- redundancy
- registrar
- reilly
- relish
- remodeled
- repaid
- repellent
- resists
- respectability
- restart
- rhys
- richland
- romano
- romero
- rooftop
- roving
- rung
- rusk
- ryder
- sacraments
- safeguard
- sardinia
- screwed
- scrolls
- signor
- spar
- spires
- subscribed
- thorny
- thrash
- thyroid
- toronto's
- torso
- transcript
- trifles
- trumpeter
- alright
- andorra
- apprehensions
- approbation
- apricot
- arbuthnot
- archival
- argyll
- arias
- aristocrat
- artifact
- bernardo
- bracken
- bridegroom
- caricature
- carnivores