rues
/ɹuːz/
"rues" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rues” is uncommon English (frequency #93,102 among 21,470 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,102
- frequency rank, English
- 21,470
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - plural of rue
Corpus desk
Index EN-rues · rues · English
rues · rank #93,102 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,102
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 21,470
- PHOTO-FINISH rubus
Nearest frequency peer: rubus (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “rues”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Rossiya
Rossiya
6,903 corpus weight
- roza
roza
6,902 corpus weight
- Rubino
Rubino
6,901 corpus weight
- rubus
rubus
6,900 corpus weight
- rues
rues
6,899 corpus weight
- Saanich
Saanich
6,895 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “rues” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rues |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɹuːz/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #93,102 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rues” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
rues is uncommon English at frequency #93,102 among 21,470 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɹuːz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of rue".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rues, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is rues, spelled R-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of rue
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.