Resh
4 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
The twentieth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, corresponding phonetically to the sound of the letter R.
“The scholar noted that resh appears at the start of the Hebrew word for spirit.”
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Wordle
Ends in -esh like mesh, flesh, fresh, the R opening with an SH ending is an unusual combination
Scrabble
H scores 4 points, the SH ending can hook onto other tiles and it extends to reshs with an S
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