Word.ws English Dictionary

3-Letter Words Starting with R

There are 66 three-letter words that start with R on Word.ws, from raa to ryu. The most common are run, red, ran, ray and row.

Meanings from Wiktionary. Not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list.

All 66 three-letter words that start with R

RA

  • raa3n. The letter ر in the Arabic script.
  • rad4n. A non-SI unit of absorbed dose of radiation, equal to 0.01 gray, that...
  • rag4n. Tattered clothes (clothing).
  • rah6interj. An exclamation of support or encouragement.
  • rai3n. Stone money.
  • raj10n. Reign; rule.
  • ram5n. A male sheep, typically uncastrated.
  • ran3n. Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.
  • rap5n. A sharp blow with something hard.
  • ras3n. An Ethiopian king or prince.
  • rat3n. Any of the numerous members of several rodent families that usually...
  • rav6n. A rabbi.
  • raw6adj. (of food) Not cooked.
  • rax10v. To stretch; stretch out.
  • ray6n. A beam of light or radiation.

RD

  • rdf7n. Radial distribution function.

RE

  • reb5n. Shortened form of Rebbe.
  • rec5v. To recommend.
  • red4n. The colour of the setting sun, blood, and strawberries; the colour...
  • ree3adj. Wild; fierce; outrageous; overexcited; frenzied; delirious; crazy.
  • ref6v. To referee; to act as a referee in a sport or game.
  • reg4n. A regular.
  • reh6n. The Arabic letter ر.
  • rem5n. A non-SI unit of measure for radiation dose, measured as equivalent...
  • ren3n. A kidney.
  • reo3n. A reinforcement (additional soldiers).
  • rep5v. To represent; to act as a representative for.
  • ret3v. To prepare (flax, hemp etc.) for further processing by soaking, which...
  • rev6v. To increase the speed of a motor, or to operate at a higher speed.
  • rex10n. A king, particularly in ancient Rome.
  • rez12v. To spawn or load into the game.

RH

  • rho6n. The seventeenth letter of the Modern Greek and Classical alphabets and...

RI

  • ria3n. A narrow inlet of the sea formed by a flooded unglaciated river valley.
  • rib5n. Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans...
  • rid4v. Followed by of: to free (oneself or someone, or a place) from an...
  • rig4n. The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.
  • rim5n. An edge around something, especially when circular.
  • rin3v. To run.
  • rio3n. A grade of Spanish saffron, in quality below mancha and coupé but above...
  • rip5v. To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy, such...
  • riq12n. A kind of frame drum (tambourine) with jingles attached, originating in...
  • rit3n. A scratch, a score or a groove.

RN

  • rng4n. An algebraic structure satisfying the same properties as a ring, except...

RO

  • rob5v. To steal from, especially using force or violence.
  • roc5n. An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend.
  • rod4n. A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.
  • roe3n. Eggs of fish.
  • rog4n. Intoxication through freebasing.
  • ron3n. Heroin.
  • roo3n. Rest; stillness.
  • rot3v. To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi...
  • row6n. A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre...
  • roy6n. A king.

RT

  • rta3n. The Vedic principle of natural order that regulates the operation of...

RU

  • rub5n. An act of rubbing.
  • rud4v. To become red; redden.
  • rue3v. To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past...
  • rug4n. A partial covering for a floor.
  • rum5n. A spirit distilled from various preparations of sugarcane, particularly...
  • run3v. To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short...
  • rut3n. Sexual desire in any of many mammals, often specific to mating season...
  • rux10n. A noisy disturbance or commotion.

RY

  • rya6n. A Scandinavian knotted-pile woollen rug, used as bed-cover and tapestry.
  • rye6n. A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now...
  • ryo6n. An anhemitonic pentatonic scale used in a Japanese Buddhist chant, and...
  • ryu6n. A Japanese school of a specific discipline, usually martial arts.

Questions about these words

How many three-letter words that start with R are there?
Word.ws lists 66 three-letter words that start with R.
What are common three-letter words that start with R?
run, red, ran, ray, row, raw, rid and rep.
Which of the three-letter words that start with R has the highest letter score?
riq scores 12 points with the standard letter tile values.

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Word lists and meanings adapted from the Wiktionary entry of each word. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out names, abbreviations, misspellings and offensive words, and ordered the most common words by how often they appear in English (wordfreq). Meanings from Wiktionary; this is not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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