Words with the [ɹ] sound
Alveolar approximant; curl or bunch the tongue.
Common spellings: r. Examples: red, car.
- carlini
- carnage
- chandelier
- cheerleader
- cheerleaders
- chlorophyll
- choruses
- compressor
- conflagration
- congregate
- courting
- cramer
- criminology
- criticizes
- criticizing
- crucifixion
- crumpled
- dakar
- darn
- dearer
- disheartened
- disruptive
- dolores
- dorado
- drills
- drunkenness
- dryly
- elmore
- engrossed
- errol
- evergreens
- farr
- filtration
- fordham
- forego
- forester
- fortnightly
- fraternities
- fraught
- frazier
- freedoms
- graphically
- greedily
- greenhouses
- grosvenor
- groton
- grunge
- guardianship
- harland
- harpsichord
- harvests
- hornby
- hornsby
- hypocrite
- improperly
- industrialized
- inherits
- intrinsically
- irresistibly
- lagrange
- lapierre
- larks
- leprosy
- lockhart
- lorne
- mardi
- marital
- marlboro
- mavericks
- metamorphosis
- microbiology
- miscarriage
- monochrome
- nakamura
- nitro
- nitrous
- o'rourke
- orson
- ovarian
- padres
- paralleled
- patrician
- peerless
- polaris
- porphyry
- predicate
- predominates
- prescribe
- priestley
- printings
- prismatic
- procuring
- profanity
- professorships
- profiled
- propped
- protestors
- prow
- racking
- raving