# rout vs RT

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### rout
*noun · IPA /ɹaʊt/ · frequency rank #25,914*
A group of people; a crowd, a throng, a troop; in particular (archaic), a group of people accompanying or travelling with someone.

### RT
*name · frequency rank #6,732*
Initialism of Russia Today, an international news network.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
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