Rus
[rʏs]
The verdict
“Rus” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #25,803) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #25,803
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ruso.
Corpus desk
Index ES-rus · Rus · Spanish
Rus · rank #25,803 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,803
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH rumba
Nearest frequency peer: rumba (-1 rank slots)
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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “Rus”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Richmond
Richmond
74,202 corpus weight
- ruda
ruda
74,200 corpus weight
- rumba
rumba
74,199 corpus weight
- Rus
Rus
74,198 corpus weight
- sacaban
sacaban
74,196 corpus weight
- saludan
saludan
74,195 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “Rus” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rus |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [rʏs] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #25,803 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “Rus”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Rus is neighbouring look-alikes ("Rx", "Rut", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [rʏs]. Frequency #25,803 among 4,151 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Ruso.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Rus, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Rx", "Rut", "ruz", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is Rus, spelled R-U-S.
Definition
- 1Ruso.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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