# rustic

> English word · Adjective · IPA /ˈɹʌstɪk/ · frequency rank #17,945

## Definitions
1. Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
2. Unfinished or roughly finished.
3. Crude, rough.
4. Simple; artless; unaffected.

## Etymology
From Latin rūsticus. Doublet of roister.

## Easily confused with
- **rusty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rustic-vs-rusty)
- **rustle** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rustic-vs-rustle)
- **rusting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rustic-vs-rusting)
- **rust** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rust-vs-rustic)
- **Russia** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/russia-vs-rustic)
- **rubric** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rubric-vs-rustic)

## Common misspellings (9)
`rrustic`, `rsutic`, `rusitc`, `russtic`, `rustci`, `rusticc`, `rusttic`, `rutsic`, `urstic`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/rustic