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5 Letter Words Ending In Rie
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There are 7 five-letter English words that end in RIE in the word list Wordton searches, ENABLE plus a curated modern supplement.
This is the complete list from our 173,000-word dictionary: every entry, with a note on what it is.
- aerie5 ptsan eagle's nest built high on a cliff
- curie7 ptsa unit of radioactivity, named for Marie Curie
- eerie5 ptsstrange in a way that makes the skin prickle
- eyrie8 ptsanother spelling of aerie
- kyrie12 ptsa short liturgical prayer, from the Greek for lord
- oorie5 ptsa Scots word for shabby, dingy, or dismal
- ourie5 ptsanother spelling of oorie
Why so few?
The -RIE ending is mostly French and Scots in origin, and five letters leaves little room for it. English kept a handful of borrowings (liturgy, physics, and birds' nests) plus two Scots weather words that survive mainly in dictionaries and crosswords.