ri

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
2
Words With Friends
2
Letters
2
Pronunciation
/ɹiː/

Definition of ri

9 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

name

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Rhode Island: a state of the United States.
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name

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Rhode Island: a state of the United States.
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Riau: a province of Indonesia.
  3. (Singapore, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Raffles Institution.
    “He's illiterate […] Seriously, how did he get into RI?”
  4. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Yi.

noun

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of radioisotope.
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of radio interference.
  3. 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.
  4. A Korean unit of distance equivalent to about 393 m.
  5. The solfeggio syllable used to indicate the sharp of the second note of a major scale, enharmonic to me.

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Etymology

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

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