Ru
The verdict
“Ru” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,484) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,484
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ruthenium
Corpus desk
Index DE-ru · Ru · German
Ru · rank #24,484 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,484
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH Rostocker
Nearest frequency peer: Rostocker (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „Ru“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- reinschauen
reinschauen
75,522 corpus weight
- Rostocker
Rostocker
75,518 corpus weight
- Ru
Ru
75,517 corpus weight
- Röcke
Röcke
75,515 corpus weight
- saftige
saftige
75,514 corpus weight
- Samantha
Samantha
75,513 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Ru“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ru |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #24,484 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Ru“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Ru is neighbouring look-alikes ("RV", "RZ", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #24,484 among 2,984 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Ruthenium".
No misspelling variants are generated for Ru in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RV", "RZ", "Rum", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Ru, spelled R-U.
Definition
- 1Ruthenium
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ru appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ru → Ru⁴⁺ + 4 e⁻
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.