truth

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The English entry for truth is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /tɹuːθ/. Corpus data places it at rank #960 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for truth, with forms such as "rtuth", "trruth", and "trtuh". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tut", "tutu", "truths", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English trouthe, truthe, trewthe, treowthe, from Old English trēowþ, trīewþ (“truth, veracity, faith, fidelity, loyalty, honour, pledge, covenant”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō (“promise, covenant, contract”), from Proto-Indo-European *drū- (“… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is truth, spelled T-R-U-T-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.