trust
/tɹʌst/
"trust" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“trust” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #780. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #780
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
Corpus desk
Index EN-trust · trust · English
trust · rank #780 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #780
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH you've
Nearest frequency peer: you've (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “trust”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- picture
picture
99,224 corpus weight
- size
size
99,223 corpus weight
- trust
trust
99,221 corpus weight
- you've
you've
99,220 corpus weight
- central
central
99,219 corpus weight
- changes
changes
99,218 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “trust” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trust |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tɹʌst/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “trust” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around trust (IPA /tɹʌst/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #780 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 11 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for trust, with forms such as "rtust", "trrust", and "trsut". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tut", "tusk", "tuft", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English trust, trost (“trust, protection”). Long considered a borrowing from Old Norse traust (“confidence, help, protection”), from Proto-Germanic *traustą, but the root vocalism is incompatible, so trust has come to be considered a reflex of a… The correct English form is trust, spelled T-R-U-S-T.
Definition
- 1Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
- 2Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
- 3Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
- 4That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
- 5That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
- 6Trustworthiness, reliability.
- 7The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
- 8The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
- 9An arrangement whereby property or money is given to be held by a third party (a trustee), on the basis that it will be managed for the benefit of, or eventually transferred to, a stated beneficiary; for example, money to be given to a child when he or she reaches adulthood.
- 10A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees.
- 11Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how trust appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He needs to regain her trust if he is ever going to win her back.
to lose trust in someone
Etymology
From Middle English trust, trost (“trust, protection”). Long considered a borrowing from Old Norse traust (“confidence, help, protection”), from Proto-Germanic *traustą, but the root vocalism is incompatible, so trust has come to be considered a reflex of an unattested Old English *trust, from a rare zero-grade Proto-Germanic variant of the same root also attested in Middle High German getrüste (“host”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“be firm, hard, solid”). Akin to Danish trøst (“comfort, solace”), Saterland Frisian Traast (“comfort, solace”), West Frisian treast (“comfort, solace”), Dutch troost (“comfort, consolation”), German Trost (“comfort, consolation”), Gothic trausti (“alliance, pact”). Doublet of tryst. More at true, tree.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtust
- trrust
- trsut
- trusst
- trustt
- truts
- ttrust
- turst
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of trust - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "trust" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "tut". View pair
- 8 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #780 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.