EGAVE

r

About 78.55 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. letter The eighteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
  2. symbol Abbreviation of ronto-.
  3. symbol radius
  4. symbol (a) an alveolar trill.
    (b) Used in broad transcription for any rhotic consonant, e.g. in English, French or Japanese where the ⟨r⟩ is not a trill [r].
  5. symbol used in several romanization systems of non-Latin scripts to represent various rhotic sounds: Romanization of the Hebrew ר (“reish”, “resh”, “rēš”) in the Common Israeli, Hebrew Academy (1953 and 2006), and ISO 259 transliteration schemes Romanization of the Hebrew רּ (“reish”, “resh”, “rēš ḥāzāq”) in the Common Israeli transliteration scheme
  6. symbol Romanization of the Hebrew ר (“reish”, “resh”, “rēš”) in the Common Israeli, Hebrew Academy (1953 and 2006), and ISO 259 transliteration schemes
  7. symbol Romanization of the Hebrew רּ (“reish”, “resh”, “rēš ḥāzāq”) in the Common Israeli transliteration scheme
  8. symbol of a tactic diad, having structural units in opposition.

Similar words

band hoop pack encircle surround environ knell tintinnabulation peal annulus

Often followed by

is and the r in i a of v

Word family

R Rs r's rs

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