# Indus

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /ˈɪn.dəs/ · frequency rank #26,126

## Definitions
1. A major river in China, India and Pakistan, rising in Tibet and flowing into the Arabian Sea.

## Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Indus, from Ancient Greek Ἰνδός (Indós), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (h-i-du-u-š /⁠hiⁿduš⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *hínduš (compare Avestan 𐬵𐬌𐬧𐬛𐬎 (hiṇdu)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *síndʰuš or borrowed from Sanskrit सिन्धु (síndhu) (whence Sindh).
Another explication relates the origin of Indus to Indra which itself derives from the root indu, i.e. " water place or water spirit".

## Easily confused with
- **ins** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/indus-vs-ins)
- **Indy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/indus-vs-indy)
- **inns** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/indus-vs-inns)
- **input** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/indus-vs-input)
- **Inoue** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/indus-vs-inoue)
- **infuse** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/indus-vs-infuse)
- **Ind** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ind-vs-indus)
- **IDS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ids-vs-indus)
- **Indo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/indo-vs-indus)
- **Indi** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/indi-vs-indus)
- **ides** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ides-vs-indus)
- **India** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/india-vs-indus)
- **index** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/index-vs-indus)
- **indie** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/indie-vs-indus)
- **incur** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/incur-vs-indus)
- **Indra** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/indra-vs-indus)
- **indio** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/indio-vs-indus)
- **Indies** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/indies-vs-indus)
- **induce** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/induce-vs-indus)

## Common misspellings (7)
`idnus`, `inddus`, `indsu`, `induss`, `inndus`, `inuds`, `nidus`

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