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truss

/tɹʌs/noun, verb

truss is spelled T-R-U-S-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 19,825th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, truss means “A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of truss is trusses.

How many letters and syllables are in truss?

Letters5: T-R-U-S-S
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.9 times per million words; the 19,825th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is truss?

Truss appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 19,825th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce truss?

  • US /tɹʌs/
  • /tɹʊs/

Truss has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-truss.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-I_learned_some_phrases-truss.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with truss?

6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as truss from its last stressed vowel (/ʌs/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of truss

  • trusses plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • trussing participle, present
  • trussed participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does truss mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place.

  2. 2

    A structure made up of one or more triangular units made from straight beams of wood or metal, which is used to support a structure as in a roof or bridge.

  3. 3

    A triangular bracket.

  4. 4

    An old English farming measurement. One truss of straw equalled 36 pounds, a truss of old hay equalled 56 pounds, a truss of new hay equalled 60 pounds, and 36 trusses equalled one load.

  5. 5

    obsoleteA bundle; a package.

  6. 6

    A padded jacket or dress worn under armour, to protect the body from the effects of friction.

  7. 7

    Part of a woman's dress; a stomacher.

  8. 8

    A tuft of flowers or cluster of fruits formed at the top of the main stem of certain plants.

verb

  1. 1

    To tie up a bird before cooking it.

  2. 2

    To secure or bind with ropes.

  3. 3

    To support.

  4. 4

    To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.

  5. 5

    To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.

  6. 6

    archaicslangTo execute by hanging; to hang; usually with up.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Truss in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchbandage herniaire (bandage and belt), treillis, structure triangulée (framework of beams)
GermanBruchband (bandage and belt), Fachwerkträger, Fachwerk, Dachstuhl, Dachwerk, Dachtragwerk (framework of beams)
Spanishfaja para hernia (bandage and belt), cercha, entramado (framework of beams)
Portuguesetreliça (framework of beams)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does truss come from?

From Middle English trusse, from Old French trousse, torse, from Vulgar Latin *torsus, variant of Classical Latin tortus, past participle of torqueō. Doublet of torse and trousse.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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