distrusted

adj

"distrusted" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“distrusted” is uncommon English (frequency #54,125 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#54,125
frequency rank, English
3,470
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Not trusted; considered untrustworthy.

Corpus desk

Index EN-distrusted · distrusted · English

distrusted · rank #54,125 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #54,125
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,470
  • PHOTO-FINISH divorcee

Nearest frequency peer: divorcee (+1 rank slots)

Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern

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.

Long-tail ranks near “distrusted”

Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “distrusted” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for distrusted
PropertyValue
Headworddistrusted
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters10
Frequency rank#54,125
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “distrusted” in English

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right).distrustedfalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Rare peers in the same band: “divorcee” (#54,126), “disjoint” (#54,123), “diya” (#54,127). Among 3,470 “D” headwords, “distrusted” is #54,125. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

distrusted is uncommon English at frequency #54,125 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Not trusted; considered untrustworthy.".

No misspelling variants are generated for distrusted in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is distrusted, spelled D-I-S-T-R-U-S-T-E-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Not trusted; considered untrustworthy.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how distrusted appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. I examine some famous environmental 'disasters', a very distrusted chemical (chlorine), and some favourite environmental panaceas.
  2. There is, as a matter of fact, a movement toward the scientific idea of knowledge in all this that slowly begins to eclipse the confidence in the integrated "judgment of sense" of the human being; where feelings and emotive powers become more and more distrusted by Catholic philosophers and theologians, as the Protestants begin to enshrine the subjective…

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "distrusted"?
"distrusted" is spelled D-I-S-T-R-U-S-T-E-D.
What does "distrusted" mean?
As an adjective, "distrusted" means: Not trusted; considered untrustworthy.
What language does "distrusted" come from?
"distrusted" is a English word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

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Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list