# Rus vs rye

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### 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.

### rye
*noun · IPA /ɹaɪ/ · frequency rank #14,628*
A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder.

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