Rus
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#30,267
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Rus is aGermannoun. It means: Gebiet der ostslawischen Staats- und Gemeinwesen vom 9. bis zum 17. Jahrhundert Pronounced [ʁʊs]. Often confused with RV and RZ.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʁʊs] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #30,267 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Rus is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʁʊs]. Corpus data places it at rank #30,267 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Gebiet der ostslawischen Staats- und Gemeinwesen vom 9. bis zum 17. Jahrhundert".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Rus in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RV", "RZ", "Ruth", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Rus, spelled R-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Gebiet der ostslawischen Staats- und Gemeinwesen vom 9. bis zum 17. Jahrhundert
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Frequency rank: #30,267 in German
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