rus
\ʁy\
The verdict
“rus” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #37,537) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #37,537
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ru.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rus · rus · French
rus · rank #37,537 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,537
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ruinés
Nearest frequency peer: ruinés (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « rus »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- romanciers
romanciers
62,467 corpus weight
- romarin
romarin
62,466 corpus weight
- ruinés
ruinés
62,465 corpus weight
- rus
rus
62,464 corpus weight
- récitation
récitation
62,463 corpus weight
- récépissé
récépissé
62,462 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « rus » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des 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 | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁy\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #37,537 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « rus »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for rus is neighbouring look-alikes ("RV", "Ry", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ʁy\. Frequency #37,537 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Pluriel de ru.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for rus in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RV", "Ry", "Ryo", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is rus, spelled R-U-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ru.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ça et là, en chaque vallée traversée, des cascades à la fine silhouette argentée se jetaient du haut des parois rocheuses et couraient rejoindre la Norsen, zigzaguant entre rocs et troncs, formant rus et ruisseaux gentelets, à l’eau pure et froide.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).