# trusty

> English word · Adjective · IPA /ˈtɹʌsti/ · frequency rank #28,063

## Definitions
1. Reliable or trustworthy.

## Etymology
From Middle English trusty, tristy, tresty, equivalent to trust + -y.

## Easily confused with
- **truth** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trusty-vs-truth)
- **tryst** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trusty-vs-tryst)
- **twisty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trusty-vs-twisty)
- **trust** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trust-vs-trusty)
- **truly** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/truly-vs-trusty)
- **tasty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tasty-vs-trusty)
- **truss** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/truss-vs-trusty)
- **Trudy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trudy-vs-trusty)
- **treaty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/treaty-vs-trusty)
- **thrust** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thrust-vs-trusty)
- **trusts** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trusts-vs-trusty)
- **trashy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trashy-vs-trusty)
- **toasty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/toasty-vs-trusty)
- **truely** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/truely-vs-trusty)
- **trusted** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trusted-vs-trusty)
- **trustee** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trustee-vs-trusty)
- **thrusts** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thrusts-vs-trusty)

## Common misspellings (10)
`rtusty`, `trrusty`, `trsuty`, `trussty`, `trustty`, `trustyy`, `trusyt`, `trutsy`, `ttrusty`, `tursty`

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