# Indo vs Indus

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Indo
*noun · frequency rank #16,050*
A Eurasian person living in or connected with Indonesia, especially (historical) a person in the former Dutch East Indies who held European legal status but was of mixed Dutch and indigenous Indonesian descent, or a descendant of such a person.

### Indus
*name · IPA /ˈɪn.dəs/ · frequency rank #26,126*
A major river in China, India and Pakistan, rising in Tibet and flowing into the Arabian Sea.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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