# tryst

> English word · Noun · IPA /tɹɪst/ · frequency rank #49,680

## Definitions
1. A prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time.
2. A mutual agreement, a covenant.
3. A market fair, especially a recurring one held on a schedule, where livestock sales took place.

## Etymology
From Middle English tryst, trist, from Old French triste, tristre (“waiting place, appointed station in hunting”), probably from a North Germanic source such as Old Norse treysta (“to make safe, secure”), from traust (“confidence, trust, security, help, shelter, safe abode”), from Proto-Germanic *traustą (“trust, shelter”), from Proto-Indo-European *deru-, *dreu-, *drū- (“to be firm, be solid”). Doublet of trust, see there for more.

## Easily confused with
- **twist** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tryst-vs-twist)
- **try** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/try-vs-tryst)
- **test** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/test-vs-tryst)
- **toys** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/toys-vs-tryst)
- **trot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trot-vs-tryst)
- **tres** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tres-vs-tryst)
- **tris** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tris-vs-tryst)
- **trust** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trust-vs-tryst)
- **treat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/treat-vs-tryst)
- **trash** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trash-vs-tryst)
- **toast** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/toast-vs-tryst)
- **Trent** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trent-vs-tryst)
- **trout** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trout-vs-tryst)
- **tract** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tract-vs-tryst)
- **trait** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trait-vs-tryst)
- **truss** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/truss-vs-tryst)
- **Trish** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trish-vs-tryst)
- **tryna** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tryna-vs-tryst)
- **Trask** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trask-vs-tryst)
- **thrust** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thrust-vs-tryst)

## Common misspellings (9)
`rtyst`, `trryst`, `trsyt`, `trysst`, `trystt`, `tryts`, `tryyst`, `ttryst`, `tyrst`

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