r

Alternative forms

• ꝛ (archaic)

Letter

r (upper case R)

1. The eighteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Symbol

r

1. Abbreviation of ronto-.
2. (engineering, geometry) radius
3. (IPA) alveolar trill
4. (IPA, superscript) a trill release (of a plosive); a weak, fleeting or epenthetic [r]; an r-offglide (of a vowel; dated) – see ⟨ʳ⟩
5. (phonetics) used in several romanization systems of non-Latin scripts to represent an various other rhotic sounds (/r/).
   1. Romanization of the Hebrew ר‎ (“reish”, “resh”, “rēš”) in the Common Israeli, Hebrew Academy (1953 and 2006), and ISO 259 transliteration schemes
   2. Romanization of the Hebrew רּ‎ (“reish”, “resh”, “rēš ḥāzāq”) in the Common Israeli transliteration scheme

Gallery

• Letter styles
• Uppercase and lowercase versions of R, in normal and italic type
• Uppercase and lowercase R in Fraktur

Letter

r (lower case, upper case R, plural rs or r's)

1. The eighteenth letter of the English alphabet, called ar and written in the Latin script.

Number

r (lower case, upper case R)

1. The ordinal number eighteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called ar and written in the Latin script.

Verb

r

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of are.
   • How r u ― How are you?

Determiner

r

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of our.

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA: /r/

Letter

r lower case (upper case R)

1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ere/, [e̞.re̞]

Letter

r (lower case, upper case R)

1. The nineteenth letter of the Basque alphabet, called erre and written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /ɛr/

Letter

r (lower case, upper case R)

1. The eighteenth letter of the Dutch alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA: /ɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: er
• (modern Egyptological, US) IPA: /ɝ/

Noun

 m

1. opening, division
2. mouth (of humans or animals)
3. (figuratively, chiefly in titles) speaker, mouthpiece
4. utterance, statement
5. (rare) language, manner of speech
6. bodily orifice, opening of the human body in general, including eyes, ears, nostrils, the vulva, and open wounds
7. entrance to a building, doorway
8. entrance to a land or place in general
9. mouth of a river
10. (especially in compounds) place or thing seen as an opening from one point to another, passage, thoroughfare
11. a measure of volume equivalent to ¹⁄₃₂ of a hnw or ¹⁄₃₂₀ of a ḥqꜣt (about 15 millilitres); mouthful
12. part, piece, fraction
13. (mathematics) used as a numerator of 1 in fractions, literally “piece of (the denominator)”.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA: /ɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: er
• (modern Egyptological, US) IPA: /ɝ/

Preposition

1. regarding, with respect to, concerning, according to
2. in order to, for (the purpose of)
3. (with following infinitive) forms the periphrastic prospective of a verb
4. (with verbs of motion, of places) to, towards
5. (in adverbial sentences, of places, roles, or functions) headed for, destined for, bound for
6. (of time) at, in, on
7. against, in opposition to
8. from, apart from (ablative)
9. (after an adjective or adverb, forming the comparative) than, by comparison to
10. (generally in sentence-initial form jr) introduces the protasis of a conditional sentence; if, when, as
11. (with a verb in the terminative as object) until

Particle

 enclitic

1. (with attached suffix pronoun) so, regarding (that, you, me, etc.), as for (that, you, me, etc.)

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /ro/
• (phoneme): IPA: /r/

Letter

r (lower case, upper case R)

1. The twenty-first letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called ro and written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈerː/

Letter

r (lower case, upper case R)

1. The eighteenth letter of the Estonian alphabet, called err and written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɹ/

Letter

r (upper case R)

1. The twentieth letter of the Faroese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Letter

r (lower case, upper case R)

1. The eighteenth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called är or er and written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• (letter name) IPA: /ɛʁ/

Letter

r (lower case, upper case R)

1. The eighteenth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɾ/

Letter

r (lower case, upper case R)

1. A letter of the Fula alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Romanization

r

1. Romanization of 𐍂

Pronunciation

• (phoneme): IPA: [ˈr]
• (letter name): IPA: [ˈɛrː]

Letter

r (lower case, upper case R)

1. The twenty-ninth letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called err and written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• (context pronunciation) IPA: /ɾ/
• (letter name) IPA: /ɾe/

Letter

r (upper case R)

1. The eighteenth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Letter

r f or m (invariable, lower case, upper case R)

1. The sixteenth letter of the Italian alphabet, called erre and written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ɾ]

Letter

r (lower case, upper case R)

1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called er and written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA: /r/

Letter

r (upper case R)

1. The twenty-ninth letter of the Livonian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Letter

r (lower case, upper case R)

1. The eighteenth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /r/

Letter

r (lower case, upper case R)

1. The twenty-second letter of the Maltese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Romanization

r (r5／r0, Zhuyin r5)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 兒／儿

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /ærː/, /æɾː/
• (phoneme): IPA: /r/, /ɾ/, /ʁ/

Letter

r

1. The eighteenth letter of the Norwegian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• (phoneme): IPA: /ɾ/

Letter

r (lower case, upper case R)

1. The twentieth letter of the Nupe alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɛr/

Letter

r (upper case R, lower case)

1. The twenty-third letter of the Polish alphabet, called er and written in the Latin script.

Letter

r (lower case, upper case R)

1. The eighteenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /r/

Letter

r (lower case, upper case R)

1. (International Standard) The twenty-second letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.
2. (Pan-Vlax) The twenty-third letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /r/

Letter

r (lower case, upper case R)

1. The twenty-first letter of the Romanian alphabet, called er, re, or rî and written in the Latin script.

Alternative forms

• (uppercase) R

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA: /r/

Letter

r (Cyrillic spelling р)

1. The 23rd letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by p and followed by s.

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA: /r/

Letter

r (upper case R)

1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA: (phoneme) /ɾ/, /r/

Letter

r (lower case, upper case R)

1. The nineteenth letter of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA: /ɾ/

Letter

r (lower case, upper case R)

1. The twenty-first letter of the Turkish alphabet, called re and written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA: /r/

Letter

r (upper case R)

1. The twenty-first letter of the Turkmen alphabet, called er and written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• (phoneme): IPA: /ɾ/
• (letter name): IPA: /ɾí/

Letter

r (lower case, upper case R)

1. The nineteenth letter of the Yoruba alphabet, called rí and written in the Latin script.

Letter

r (lower case, upper case R)

1. The eighteenth letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.