russ
\ʁʊs\
The verdict
“russ” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #31,707) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,707
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 2
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de russen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-russ · russ · French
russ · rank #31,707 · 2 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,707
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 2 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rugueux
Nearest frequency peer: rugueux (-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 « russ »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- rudimentaire
rudimentaire
68,297 corpus weight
- Rudolf
Rudolf
68,296 corpus weight
- rugueux
rugueux
68,295 corpus weight
- russ
russ
68,294 corpus weight
- réa
réa
68,293 corpus weight
- réfugiée
réfugiée
68,292 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « russ » 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 | russ |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁʊs\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #31,707 |
| Misspellings tracked | 2 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « russ »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for russ is neighbouring look-alikes ("ruth", "rust", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \ʁʊs\. Frequency #31,707 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de russen.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 2 likely wrong-spelling variants for russ, including "rruss" and "rsus". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ruth", "rust", "russe", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is russ, spelled R-U-S-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de russen.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rruss
- rsus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of russ - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "russ", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).