5-Letter Words With R as the Third Letter
Our word finder knows 820 five-letter words with R as the third letter. Common picks such as FIRST, WORLD, TERMS lead the list, which makes it faster to spot the word your puzzle is hiding.
Words are ordered by usage frequency in a trillion-word English corpus, which is the closest thing to "most likely answer first" that a word list can offer.
Most common
- first8
- world9
- terms7
- forum10
- three8
- north8
- large6
- march12
- party10
- girls6
- cards8
- parts7
- early8
- works12
- words9
- error5
- force10
- forms10
- earth8
- horse8
All 820 words (the small number on each word is its Scrabble point value)
- paris 7
- worth 11
- agree 6
- serve 8
- birth 10
- virus 8
- sorry 8
- harry 11
- carry 10
- rural 5
- parks 11
- firms 10
- array 8
- forth 11
- marks 11
- birds 8
- ports 7
- strip 7
- turns 5
- worst 8
- nurse 5
- dirty 9
- throw 11
- worse 8
- spray 10
- yards 9
- kerry 12
- maria 7
- acres 7
- terry 8
- jerry 15
- moral 7
- worry 11
- corps 9
- arrow 8
- strap 7
- tired 6
- carol 7
- curve 10
- turbo 7
- farms 10
- perry 10
- cargo 8
- burns 7
- ferry 11
- coral 7
- wired 9
- herbs 10
- screw 10
- fired 9
- tires 5
- berry 10
- verse 8
- forty 11
- lyric 10
- karma 11
- mercy 12
- nerve 8
- euros 5
- hired 9
- merit 7
- fires 8
- merry 10
- derby 11
- xerox 19
- sorts 5
- viral 8
- merge 8
- serum 7
- burke 11
- purse 7
- surge 6
- wires 8
- forge 9
- burst 7
- bored 8
- fares 8
- marsh 10
- turks 9
- lords 6
- cares 7
- hardy 12
- threw 11
- marry 10
- harsh 11
- curry 10
- worms 10
- curse 7
- straw 8
- scrap 9
- terra 5
- parse 7
- forks 12
- tarot 5
- carts 7
- hurry 11
- baron 7
- circa 9
- porch 12
- carat 7
- borne 7
- torch 10
- burnt 7
- norms 7
- syrup 10
- horde 9
- hurts 8
- birch 12
- warns 8
- carte 7
- torah 8
- tyres 8
- horns 8
- morse 7
- cords 8
- scrub 9
- cared 8
- darts 6
- curly 10
- garth 9
- aired 6
- serif 8
- cores 7
- cured 8
- gorge 7
- furry 11
- hires 8
- barre 7
- largo 6
- stray 8
- forte 8
- verbs 10
- torso 5
- wards 9
- hertz 17
- carbs 9
- earns 5
- apron 7
- servo 8
- heron 8
- hurst 8
- cures 7
- shrub 10
- verge 9
- parry 10
- mural 7
- purge 8
- perky 14
- siren 5
- derry 9
- barge 8
- serge 6
- strut 5
- peril 7
- perch 12
- barns 7
- wares 8
- verve 11
- spree 7
- gurus 6
- yarns 8
- zeros 14
- lures 5
- warts 8
- perks 11
- corgi 8
- berth 10
- sores 5
- moron 7
- sarge 6
- merle 7
- karat 9
- heres 8
- harms 10
- carve 10
- erred 6
- dared 7
- firth 11
- ceres 7
- feral 8
- herds 9
- germs 8
- nerds 6
- enrol 5
- marge 8
- garda 7
- boron 7
- sorta 5
- shred 9
- juror 12
- jerks 16
- carer 7
- mares 7
- fermi 10
- verso 8
- girly 9
- pores 7
- moray 10
- horst 8
- eerie 5
- varna 8
- torts 5
- rerun 5
- jerky 19
- morph 12
- aural 5
- forts 8
- farce 10
- shrug 9
- ferns 8
- curls 7
- tarts 5
- parka 11
- berks 11
- toric 7
- pyrex 17
- corby 12
- earls 5
- aorta 5
- curie 7
- strep 7
- heros 8
- karts 9
- merch 12
- paras 7
- lorry 8
- beryl 10
- forme 10
- murky 14
- dares 6
- eared 6
- torus 5
- curio 7
- foray 11
- girth 9
- curbs 9
- warms 10
- lured 6
- dorms 8
- pared 8
- larva 8
- fared 9
- morro 7
- puree 7
- harem 10
- barks 11
- nerdy 9
- karoo 9
- yerba 10
- scrum 9
- mirza 16
- morel 7
- peres 7
- durst 6
- carle 7
- corse 7
- burgh 11
- egret 6
- fords 9
- sorel 5
- dirge 7
- shrew 11
- karst 9
- mirth 10
- corny 10
- surly 8
- bursa 7
- vertu 8
- curvy 13
- borer 7
- tarps 7
- forgo 9
- barca 9
- carex 14
- beret 7
- scrip 9
- farts 8
- surah 8
- terns 5
- corky 14
- saree 5
- tardy 9
- harps 10
- porns 7
- loris 5
- rarer 5
- mores 7
- myrrh 13
- bores 7
- vireo 8
- terse 5
- sires 5
- bards 8
- caret 7
- apres 7
- varia 8
- atria 5
- derma 8
- mired 8
- barbs 9
- carbo 9
- hares 8
- sarin 5
- lurks 9
- larch 10
- marts 7
- horas 8
- burly 10
- tarry 8
- gyrus 9
- lurid 6
- loran 5
- sired 6
- porky 14
- gyros 9
- cored 8
- parle 7
- bares 7
- strum 7
- saran 5
- feria 8
- throb 10
- murry 10
- narco 7
- corks 11
- perms 9
- lurch 10
- curia 7
- foram 10
- kerns 9
- burbs 9
- durum 8
- saris 5
- bared 8
- corns 7
- wordy 12
- rares 5
- gorse 6
- burro 7
- furor 8
- garni 6
- borax 14
- liras 5
- kurta 9
- arras 5
- dural 6
- torte 5
- dures 6
- loral 5
- carob 9
- boric 9
- lurex 12
- dorky 13
- carrs 7
- dirks 10
- scree 7
- hirer 8
- berms 9
- scrim 9
- dorks 10
- purer 7
- porgy 11
- perse 7
- sprig 8
- surfs 8
- aurum 7
- scram 9
- burrs 7
- toros 5
- pares 7
- auras 5
- marly 10
- harts 8
- warps 10
- purrs 7
- larks 9
- birks 11
- kyrie 12
- serfs 8
- torii 5
- joram 14
- barbe 9
- warty 11
- sprue 7
- verts 8
- aerie 5
- harpy 13
- fores 8
- ogres 6
- acrid 8
- forbs 10
- turds 6
- hards 9
- duras 6
- herby 13
- curds 8
- farad 9
- furan 8
- corer 7
- marka 11
- torta 5
- wurst 8
- perdu 8
- sprit 7
- burry 10
- ferny 11
- boral 7
- orris 5
- vires 8
- barer 7
- merde 8
- pyros 10
- coria 7
- carps 9
- varus 8
- gores 6
- torcs 7
- karns 9
- auric 7
- burka 11
- morts 7
- herma 10
- purty 10
- barmy 12
- surer 5
- gored 7
- mures 7
- terai 5
- aargh 9
- xeric 14
- carls 7
- tares 5
- darks 10
- arris 5
- sprat 7
- mercs 9
- kerbs 11
- lares 5
- murex 14
- sards 6
- boras 7
- hurls 8
- strop 7
- parvo 10
- perea 7
- fards 9
- bortz 16
- burqa 16
- burin 7
- kirks 13
- noris 5
- mires 7
- bergs 8
- eyrie 8
- burps 9
- seral 5
- buras 7
- pored 8
- mirex 14
- syren 8
- seres 5
- nares 5
- buran 7
- giron 6
- marvy 13
- tyros 8
- carpi 9
- virtu 8
- parol 7
- varas 8
- marcs 9
- sored 6
- peris 7
- warks 12
- yurts 8
- corms 9
- furze 17
- wormy 13
- korat 9
- harks 12
- meres 7
- carse 7
- cornu 7
- hurly 11
- pareo 7
- serac 7
- murre 7
- carom 9
- carny 10
- sorbs 7
- lores 5
- baric 9
- pervs 10
- korma 11
- tiros 5
- virga 9
- stria 5
- cires 7
- serin 5
- saros 5
- maras 7
- parer 7
- purls 7
- targe 6
- garbs 8
- lardy 9
- lyres 8
- airer 5
- serai 5
- duros 6
- nervy 11
- noria 5
- kerne 9
- auris 5
- tarty 8
- ceria 7
- stroy 8
- sarod 6
- mirin 7
- burse 7
- perps 9
- sural 5
- strew 8
- eyres 8
- moras 7
- ihram 10
- sirup 7
- duroc 8
- herms 10
- barny 10
- parrs 7
- pyric 12
- suras 5
- hyrax 18
- naric 7
- airth 8
- thrum 10
- faros 8
- parch 12
- darky 13
- laree 5
- burls 7
- jurat 12
- firer 8
- deray 9
- worts 8
- buret 7
- byres 10
- pargo 8
- carns 7
- pyran 10
- dormy 11
- parve 10
- goral 6
- pardi 8
- barfs 10
- herry 11
- pyres 10
- surfy 11
- scrod 8
- abris 7
- murra 7
- giros 6
- reran 5
- laris 5
- sarky 12
- barky 14
- purin 7
- birse 7
- marse 7
- curfs 10
- soras 5
- pardy 11
- sered 6
- wirra 8
- morae 7
- birls 7
- gurry 9
- tarsi 5
- gyres 9
- turfs 8
- marls 7
- daric 8
- tirls 5
- girds 7
- feres 8
- virls 8
- siree 5
- barde 8
- curst 7
- torsk 9
- merks 11
- porny 10
- acred 8
- afrit 8
- agria 6
- airns 5
- airts 5
- atrip 7
- aurae 5
- aurar 5
- aurei 5
- aures 5
- barms 9
- barye 10
- berme 9
- birle 7
- biros 7
- birrs 7
- borks 11
- borts 7
- borty 10
- burds 8
- burgs 8
- byrls 10
- carks 11
- cerci 9
- cered 8
- ceric 9
- ceros 7
- cirri 7
- curch 12
- curdy 11
- curer 7
- curet 7
- curns 7
- currs 7
- darbs 8
- darer 6
- darns 6
- derat 6
- derms 8
- diram 8
- direr 6
- dirls 6
- dirts 6
- dorps 8
- dorrs 6
- dorsa 6
- dorty 9
- dured 7
- durns 6
- durra 6
- durrs 6
- ecrus 7
- eyras 8
- eyrir 8
- farci 10
- farcy 13
- farer 8
- farle 8
- farls 8
- ferly 11
- firns 8
- firry 11
- forby 13
- fordo 9
- forky 15
- furls 8
- furzy 20
- gerah 9
- germy 11
- girns 6
- girsh 9
- girts 6
- gorms 8
- gorps 8
- gorsy 9
- gurge 7
- gursh 9
- gyral 9
- gyred 10
- gyron 9
- hared 9
- harls 8
- herls 8
- herns 8
- hiree 8
- horah 11
- horal 8
- horsy 11
- hurds 9
- inrun 5
- jarls 12
- jerid 13
- jorum 14
- jural 12
- jurel 12
- kerfs 12
- kirns 9
- korai 9
- koras 9
- korun 9
- kurus 9
- lards 6
- larky 12
- larum 7
- lirot 5
- lurer 5
- merer 7
- merls 7
- mirks 11
- mirky 14
- morns 7
- muras 7
- mured 8
- murid 8
- murks 11
- murrs 7
- narcs 7
- nards 6
- naris 5
- narks 9
- narky 12
- nerol 5
- nerts 5
- nertz 14
- nurds 6
- nurls 5
- oared 6
- ocrea 7
- okras 9
- oorie 5
- ourie 5
- parae 7
- pards 8
- pareu 7
- parge 8
- perdy 11
- pirns 7
- pirog 8
- porks 11
- purda 8
- puris 7
- pursy 10
- qursh 17
- rared 6
- rerig 6
- sargo 6
- sarks 9
- scrag 8
- serer 5
- serow 8
- serry 8
- shris 8
- sirra 5
- sords 6
- sorer 5
- sorgo 6
- sorns 5
- sorus 5
- sprag 8
- sprug 8
- strow 8
- surds 6
- surgy 9
- surra 5
- tardo 6
- tared 6
- tarns 5
- taroc 7
- tarok 9
- taros 5
- tarre 5
- terce 7
- terga 6
- terne 5
- thraw 11
- thrip 10
- throe 8
- toras 5
- tores 5
- torot 5
- torrs 5
- torse 5
- torsi 5
- turfy 11
- turps 7
- tyred 9
- unrig 6
- unrip 7
- varix 15
- varve 11
- verst 8
- virid 9
- wared 9
- wirer 8
- xerus 12
- yarer 8
- yerks 12
- yirds 9
- yirrs 8
- yirth 11
- yores 8
- yurta 8
- zarfs 17
- zerks 18
- ziram 16
- zoril 14
- zoris 14
Points use Scrabble US letter values
Frequently asked questions
How many five-letter words are there with R as the third letter?
There are 820 five-letter words with R as the third letter in the tournament word lists. The most common are FIRST, WORLD, TERMS.
What are common five-letter words with R as the third letter?
FIRST, WORLD, TERMS, FORUM, THREE are the most frequently used. The full list of 820 words on this page is sorted by everyday frequency, so the common ones come first.
Are these valid Wordle words?
Nearly all of them. Wordle draws its answers from a curated list of common five-letter words, but it accepts almost any dictionary word as a guess, including the words on this page.