Russophone

adjective, noun

Russophone is an adjective meaning “Russian-speaking” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-U-S-S-O-P-H-O-N-E, and it appears about once in every 56 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does Russophone mean?

adjective

1
Russian-speaking.

noun

1
A person who speaks Russian.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of Russophone

more Russophone comparative
most Russophone superlative
Russophones plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is Russophone?

Russophone appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th most frequent word form in the list.

Russophone0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Russophone in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

Language	Words
French	russophone (Russian-speaking)
German	russischsprachig (Russian-speaking), Russischsprachiger, Russischsprachige (someone who speaks Russian)
Portuguese	russófono (Russian-speaking)
Spanish	rusófono, rusohablante, rusoparlante (Russian-speaking), rusófona (someone who speaks Russian)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does Russophone come from?

From Russo- + -phone.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).