ru
contraction
ru is a contraction meaning “Alternative letter-case form of RU” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-U and has one syllable, and it appears 3.2 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does ru mean?
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Alternative letter-case form of RU.
ru ok?
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Abbreviation of are you.
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Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce ru?
Ru has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ru?
Ru appears 3.2 times per million words in written English, the 14,928th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).