# RSS vs Rus

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### RSS
*name · frequency rank #15,496*
Initialism of Rich Site Summary / Really Simple Syndication (“mechanism to follow updates on other websites such as news, music, blogs, etc.”).

### Rus
*name · IPA /ɹuːs/ · frequency rank #26,234*
A people made up of Scandinavian warrior merchants who travelled Eastern European river-roads from the eighth century, and whose settlements around Novgorod, Kiev/Kyiv and the Volga and Dnieper/Dnipro gave rise to the Rus' principalities.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rss-vs-rus