Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ri

/ɹiː/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.69 in modern English

Syllables
ri
IPA
/ɹiː/
2
Scrabble Score
2
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Initialism of Rhode Island: a state of the United States.

name

Abbreviation of Riau: a province of Indonesia.

name

Initialism of Raffles Institution.

noun

Initialism of radioisotope.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Initialism of radio interference.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

rex imperator (“king-emperor”) or regina imperatrix (“queen-empress”); the initials by which a British monarch signed documents after his or her name from 1877 until 1947.

noun

A Korean unit of distance equivalent to about 393 m.

noun

The solfeggio syllable used to indicate the sharp of the second note of a major scale, enharmonic to me.

Example Sentences

Etymology

From the McCune-Reischauer romanization of Korean 리 (ri), from Chinese 里 (lǐ). Doublet of li.

Origin

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Usage

Inflected Forms

RIs (plural)

Homonyms

re re- ree

Rhymes With

the be he we me she see three free -free big three de

Questions

How do you pronounce ri?
The recorded pronunciation is /ɹiː/.
What does ri mean?
Initialism of Rhode Island: a state of the United States.
Where does ri come from?
It is traced to Korean.

How to pronounce ri

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