5-Letter Words Starting with RI
There are 40 five-letter words that start with RI on Word.ws, from riant to rizzy. The most common are right, river, rings, rifle and rival.
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All 40 five-letter words that start with RI
- riant5adj. Mirthful, cheerful, smiling, light-hearted.
- riata5n. A lariat or lasso.
- ribby12adj. Pertaining to or having ribs; ribbed.
- riced8adj. Made into or consisting of finely minced pieces resembling rice.
- ricer7n. A person, especially a Native American, who cultivates and harvests...
- ricey10adj. Containing rice.
- ricin7n. An extremely toxic lectin extracted from the castor bean.
- rider6n. An old Dutch gold coin with the figure of a man on horseback stamped...
- ridge7n. The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the...
- ridgy10adj. Rising in a ridge or ridges; having ridges.
- ridic8adj. Ridiculous.
- rifle8n. A firearm fired from the shoulder; improved range and accuracy is...
- right9adj. Designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one...
- rigid7adj. Stiff, rather than flexible.
- rigol6n. A ridge or channel above a porthole to redirect water flow from...
- rille5n. A long, narrow depression that resembles a channel, found on the...
- rimed8adj. Covered in rime (etymology 1) or (generally) frost.
- rimer7n. A tool for shaping the rimes of a ladder.
- rindy9adj. Having a rind or skin.
- ringe6n. A whisk made of heather.
- rings6n. A gymnastics apparatus and discipline consisting of two rings suspended...
- ringy9adj. Having a ringing or reverberating sound.
- rinse5v. To wash (something) quickly using water and no soap.
- ripen7v. Of grain, fruit, flowers, etc., to grow ripe; to become mature.
- ripon7n. A spur (goad for a horse etc.).
- rippy12adj. Resembling or characteristic of ripping or tearing.
- risen5adj. Having risen.
- riser5n. Someone or something which rises.
- rishi8n. A Vedic poet and seer who composed Rigvedic hymns, who alone or with...
- risky12adj. Dangerous; involving risks.
- ritsu5n. An anhemitonic pentatonic scale used in a Japanese Buddhist chant, and...
- ritzy17adj. Elegant and luxurious.
- rival8n. A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) with the same goal as...
- riven8adj. Torn apart.
- river8n. A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying...
- rivet8n. A cylindrical mechanical fastener which is supplied with a factory head...
- riyal8n. The official currency of Qatar, divided into 100 dirhams.
- riyaz17n. The rigorous practice of Hindustani classical music.
- rizla14n. A rolling paper.
- rizzy26adj. Having or relating to rizz; charming, affectionate, seductive.
11 rare five-letter words that start with RI
Questions about these words
- How many five-letter words that start with RI are there?
- Word.ws lists 40 five-letter words that start with RI, plus 11 rare ones.
- What are common five-letter words that start with RI?
- right, river, rings, rifle, rival, ridge, rider and risky.
- Which of the five-letter words that start with RI has the highest letter score?
- rizzy scores 26 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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