distrusted
"distrusted" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“distrusted” is an uncommon English word, ranked #54,125 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #54,125
- frequency rank, English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Not trusted; considered untrustworthy.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | distrusted |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #54,125 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “distrusted” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for distrusted is 10 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #54,125 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Not trusted; considered untrustworthy.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for distrusted, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is distrusted, spelled D-I-S-T-R-U-S-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1Not trusted; considered untrustworthy.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-I-S-T-R-U-S-T-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.