RU
Portuguese, noun
RU is spelled R-U (2 letters) and appears 3.3 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 16,248th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). RU is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “initialism of Reino Unido” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does RU mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineinitialism of Reino Unido
- 2
Brazilmasculineinitialism of restaurante universitário
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
abbreviation: 1. Reino Unido
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of RU
- RUs nonstandard plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is RU in Portuguese?
RU appears 3.3 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).