distrusted
"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
- directness
directness
45,880 corpus weight
- disappointi…
disappointingly
45,879 corpus weight
- disjoint
disjoint
45,878 corpus weight
- distrusted
distrusted
45,876 corpus weight
- divorcee
divorcee
45,875 corpus weight
- diya
diya
45,874 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “distrusted” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “distrusted” in English
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
- 1Not trusted; considered untrustworthy.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how distrusted appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I examine some famous environmental 'disasters', a very distrusted chemical (chlorine), and some favourite environmental panaceas.
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.
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