# rho vs row

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### rho
*noun · IPA /ɹəʊ/ · frequency rank #36,739*
The seventeenth letter of the Modern Greek and Classical alphabets and the nineteenth letter of Old and Ancient.

### row
*noun · IPA /ˈɹəʊ/ · frequency rank #2,498*
A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden, etc.

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