There are a total of 1,284 Russian words compiled and organized here. The selection includes common high-frequency nouns, verbs, adjectives, and verified rarer entries drawn from authoritative sources.
Russian words are the lexemes used in the Russian language and written in Cyrillic. They range from everyday vocabulary to technical, literary, and historical terms. They show rich inflection across case, number, gender, and verbal aspect. They serve communication, translation, literature, and travel needs worldwide.
Interesting and little-known facts about Russian words:
– Modern Russian uses a 33-letter Cyrillic alphabet, adopted in its current form in the 20th century.
– Russian nouns decline across six grammatical cases, which change form for role and meaning.
– Verbs operate with a two-aspect system (imperfective vs. perfective) that affects meaning and tense usage.
– The top 1,000 most frequent Russian words cover roughly 70–80% of everyday running text.
– Russian is used by about 260 million people worldwide, including native and second-language speakers.
– Major corpora and dictionaries contain hundreds of millions of words of text, forming the basis for frequency and usage studies.
The alphabetical index organizes words by Latin initial and links to letter-by-letter lists. Each entry presents these columns: concise English gloss; accurate Cyrillic headword; and a short Russian example sentence plus its English translation.