Words starting with R

There are 9,960 words starting with R in our word list. 802 of them are common everyday words, such as READ, REAL, RIGHT and RACE. They range from 2 to 15 letters, and 8-letter words are the biggest group, with 1,683.

Words: 9,960
Common words: 802
Longest: REPRESENTATIVES; 15 letters
Top score: RAZZAMATAZZES; 51 points

R is one of the most useful letters in word games because it fits so many patterns, from the start (RE-) to the end (-ER, -OR).

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2-letter words (1)

3-letter words (49)

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4-letter words (181)

read
real
race
rate
rest
risk
road
rock
role
room
rain
rare
rent
rice
rich
ride
ring
rise
roll
roof
rose
rule
runs
rage
raid
rail
rank
rats
rays
rear
reed
rely
rick
riot
root
rope
rude
ruin
rush
ruth
rack
ramp
rams
rand
rang
rant

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5-letter words (417)

right
radio
range
ready
river
round
rules
raise
rates
reach
reply
roads
roman
rooms
route
royal
rural
races
radar
rally
ralph
ranch
ranks
rapid
rated
ratio
react
reads
realm
rebel
refer
reign
relax
rider
rides
ridge
rifle
rings
rises
risks
rival
robin
robot
rocks
rocky
roger

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6-letter words (929)

really
rather
reason
recent
record
region
report
result
return
review
rights
racing
raised
random
reduce
reform
relief
remain
remove
retail
rising
rabbit
racial
racism
racist
raises
ranges
ranked
rarely
rating
reader
rebels
recall
recipe
refers
refuse
regard
regime
regret
reject
relate
remind
remote
rental
repair
repeat

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7-letter words (1,385)

reading
related
release
respect
results
running
reached
reality
realize
reasons
receive
records
reduced
refused
regions
regular
remains
removed
replace
reports
request
require
reserve
respond
returns
revenue
reviews
radical
railway
rainbow
raising
rangers
ranging
ranking
rapidly
ratings
reaches
readers
realise
recover
reflect
reforms
refuses
regards
relaxed
remarks

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8-letter words (1,683)

received
recently
released
remember
reported
required
research
response
reaction
realized
recorded
recovery
referred
regional
register
relevant
religion
remained
replaced
republic
requires
returned
revealed
railroad
rational
reaching
realised
receiver
receives
reducing
reflects
refugees
regarded
rejected
relating
relation
relative
releases
reliable
reminded
reminder
removing
repeated
reporter
requests
reserved

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9-letter words (1,540)

receiving
recognize
recommend
recording
reference
regarding
regularly
relations
religious
remaining
reporting
represent
residents
resources
radiation
reactions
realistic
reasoning
reception
recovered
reduction
referring
reflected
relatives
releasing
remainder
replacing
reporters
requested
requiring
residence
respected
responded
responses
resulting
returning
radically
raspberry
rationale
readiness
realities
realizing
rebellion
receivers
receptors
recession

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10-letter words (1,223)

reasonable
recognized
registered
relatively
republican
resistance
resolution
restaurant
retirement
revolution
reasonably
recognised
recreation
references
reflection
regardless
regulation
regulatory
remarkable
remembered
repeatedly
reportedly
represents
reputation
respective
responding
restricted
ridiculous
rebuilding
recipients
recognizes
recommends
reconsider
recordings
recovering
recruiting
redemption
reductions
referenced
referendum
reflecting
reflective
refreshing
regression
regulating
regulators

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11-letter words (931)

recommended
regulations
represented
republicans
responsible
recognition
recruitment
replacement
requirement
researchers
residential
resignation
restaurants
restoration
radioactive
realization
recognizing
rectangular
reflections
reformation
reliability
remembering
remembrance
reminiscent
renaissance
researching
resemblance
reservation
resolutions
respectable
respiratory
respondents
restricting
restriction
restrictive
retaliation
revelations
rationality
reactionary
reassurance
reciprocity
reclamation
recognising
reconstruct
referencing
refurbished

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12-letter words (654)

relationship
requirements
registration
representing
respectively
restrictions
recommending
recreational
refrigerator
regeneration
replacements
reproduction
reproductive
reservations
resurrection
ridiculously
radiotherapy
ratification
receptionist
recognizable
recollection
refreshments
refrigerated
regenerative
rehabilitate
relentlessly
remuneration
repatriation
resettlement
respectfully
romantically
racketeering
radiological
rationalized
reactivation
realizations
reappearance
reassessment
reassignment
recalcitrant
receivership
rechargeable
reciprocated
recklessness
reclassified
reconfigured

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13-letter words (481)

relationships
revolutionary
restructuring
ramifications
realistically
recollections
reconstructed
redevelopment
refrigeration
refurbishment
registrations
reimbursement
reincarnation
reinforcement
repercussions
retrospective
reunification
righteousness
radioactivity
rapprochement
rearrangement
reciprocating
recombination
reconsidering
reconstituted
rectification
rediscovering
redistributed
redistricting
reestablished
reforestation
refrigerators
rehabilitated
reinstatement
reintegration
relinquishing
reminiscences
renegotiation
replenishment
repositioning
reprehensible
reproductions
reprogramming
republicanism
requisitioned
resuscitation

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14-letter words (301)

representative
responsibility
recommendation
representation
reconciliation
reconstruction
rehabilitation
reconnaissance
redistribution
reinforcements
reorganization
responsiveness
radicalization
reasonableness
reconstructing
reconstructive
rehabilitating
reimbursements
reintroduction
respectability
revitalization
revolutionized
ridiculousness
radiotelephone
rearrangements
rebelliousness
recapitulation
reconditioning
reconfigurable
reconstitution
recriminations
redistributing
redistributive
reestablishing
refurbishments
regularization
rehabilitative
reinterpreting
remanufactured
retransmission
retrospectives
reverberations
revolutionised
rheumatologist
radiochemistry
reappropriated

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15-letter words (185)

representatives
recommendations
representations
revolutionaries
rationalization
reauthorization
reconfiguration
reconsideration
reconstructions
resourcefulness
retrospectively
revolutionizing
reapportionment
recertification
reconciliations
reestablishment
renormalization
reorganizations
reproducibility
redistributions
regionalization
reincorporation
reinvestigation
remanufacturing
retroperitoneal
revolutionising
rheumatologists
ritualistically
radiobiological
radiometrically
radioprotection
radioprotective
radiotelegraphy
reaccreditation
reappropriating
recognizability
recombinational
recommissioning
reconceptualize
reconnaissances
recontextualize
recrystallizing
redetermination
rehabilitations
reincorporating
reintroductions

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Darker borders mark common everyday words. Rarer words follow in each group.

Questions

How many words starting with R are there?

Our word list has 9,960 words starting with R. 802 of them are common everyday words.

What is the longest word starting with R?

The longest have 15 letters, for example REPRESENTATIVES, RECOMMENDATIONS and REPRESENTATIONS.

Which word starting with R scores the most points?

Using standard letter tile values, RAZZAMATAZZES scores 51 points, the most of any word starting with R in our list.