# GRE vs GRU

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### GRE
*noun · frequency rank #29,675*
Any edition of the Graduate Record Examination or of any of its Subject Tests.

### GRU
*name · frequency rank #39,340*
The Main Intelligence Directorate — the Soviet and then the Russian military intelligence agency.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gre-vs-gru