# grey vs GRU

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### grey
*adjective · IPA /ɡɹeɪ/ · frequency rank #3,105*
Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.

### 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/grey-vs-gru