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9 Letter Words With R

There are 24,323 nine-letter words containing R. 13,580 of them are playable in Scrabble or Words With Friends, 462 are everyday English, and the highest scorer is extraquiz at 34 points.

The words

The 400 most common of 24,323, everyday words first. The word finder below reaches all of them.

Everyday words 400

What is in this list

Every word carries its Scrabble score; hover one to see its Words With Friends score, which differs because the two games value tiles differently. Both are raw tile totals and exclude double- and triple-letter squares, since those depend on where you put the word rather than on the word itself.

Words in total
24,323
Playable in Scrabble or Words With Friends
13,580 (56%)
Everyday words
462
Archaic or rare
10,743
Highest Scrabble score
extraquiz at 34
Average Scrabble score
14.4
Letters that turn up most
R 100%, E 75%, A 55%, I 55%, S 51%, O 48%

Questions

How many 9 letter words contain R?
24,323, across every dictionary this site merges. 462 of those are everyday English, 13,118 are valid in word games without being words you would say out loud, and 10,743 come from Webster's 1913 and are largely obsolete.
Which of them are valid in Scrabble?
13,577 appear in ENABLE, the word list Scrabble and Words With Friends programs check against. The 10,743 archaic entries are shown last and labelled, because a word game will usually reject them.
What is the highest-scoring 9 letter word that contain R?
extraquiz, worth 34 in Scrabble and 35 in Words With Friends. Both are raw tile values, before any double- or triple-letter square.
Which are the most common?
By frequency in ordinary English: copyright, resources, directory, insurance, different, important, reference, computers. The list below is in that order, so the words you are most likely to want come first.

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