# Ruhr vs Rus

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Ruhr
*name · IPA /ɹʊɚ/ · frequency rank #47,879*
A river in North Rhine-Westphalia, a branch of the river Rhine and its basin.

### 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.
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