English homophones
roos/ruse
"ruse" (#23,664 written frequency) beats "roos" (#35,496) in this 2-word /ɹuːz/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ɹuːz/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "ruse" leads at #23,664, with "roos" trailing at #35,496.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "roos" is 4 letters, "ruse" is 4; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across roos, ruse: rs. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
roos
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC
Inventory ors · private o
ruse
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory ersu · private eu
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "roos" when you mean: plural of roo
- Write "ruse" when you mean: A turning or doubling back, especially of animals to get out of the way of hunting dogs.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (roos, ruse). Here's where to go from here.
- "ruse" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #23,664 in English). Full entry
- Among English homophone groups, a cluster of 2 spellings ranks #133 by size (1,007 groups in this vintage). Corpus statistics
- Explore a nearby 2-spelling cluster: raw · roar. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "roos, ruse" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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