# truth

> English word · Noun · IPA /tɹuːθ/ · frequency rank #960

## Definitions
1. True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
2. Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.
3. The state or quality of being true to someone or something.
4. Faithfulness, fidelity.
5. A pledge of loyalty or faith.
6. Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.
7. That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality.
8. Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
9. Topness; the property of a truth quark.
10. In the game truth or dare, the choice to truthfully answer a question put forth.

## Etymology
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- (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“firm, solid”), equivalent to true + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Doublet of troth. Cognate with Norwegian trygd (“trustworthiness, security, insurance”), Icelandic tryggð (“loyalty, fidelity”).

## Easily confused with
- **tut** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/truth-vs-tut)
- **tutu** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/truth-vs-tutu)
- **truths** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/truth-vs-truths)
- **tru** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tru-vs-truth)
- **true** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/true-vs-truth)
- **trot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trot-vs-truth)
- **tout** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tout-vs-truth)
- **taut** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/taut-vs-truth)
- **Toth** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/toth-vs-truth)
- **trust** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trust-vs-truth)
- **trump** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trump-vs-truth)
- **touch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/touch-vs-truth)
- **truly** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/truly-vs-truth)
- **tough** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tough-vs-truth)
- **truck** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/truck-vs-truth)
- **teeth** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/teeth-vs-truth)
- **trash** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trash-vs-truth)
- **tooth** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tooth-vs-truth)
- **trunk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trunk-vs-truth)
- **tenth** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tenth-vs-truth)

## Common misspellings (8)
`rtuth`, `trruth`, `trtuh`, `truht`, `truthh`, `trutth`, `ttruth`, `turth`

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