trust

\tʁœst\

/\tʁœst\/ noun

The verdict

“trust” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,842. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#17,842
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Groupe d’entreprises ou de compagnies industrielles et commerciales qui s’unissent en vue de créer un monopole ou un monopsone.

Corpus desk

Index FR-trust · trust · French

trust · rank #17,842 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #17,842
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH troublant

Nearest frequency peer: troublant (-1 rank slots)

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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « trust »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « trust » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

trust vs tus
60% similar
trust vs tusk
60% similar
trust vs twist
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for trust
PropertyValue
Headwordtrust
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tʁœst\
Letters5
Frequency rank#17,842
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « trust »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).trustse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « troublant » (#17,841), « tsar » (#17,843), « tricher » (#17,840). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « trust » est au #17,842. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around trust (IPA \tʁœst\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,842 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Groupe d’entreprises ou de compagnies industrielles et commerciales qui s’unissent en vue de créer un monopole ou un monopsone.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for trust, with forms such as "rtust", "trrust", and "trsut". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tus", "tusk", "twist", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is trust, spelled T-R-U-S-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Groupe d’entreprises ou de compagnies industrielles et commerciales qui s’unissent en vue de créer un monopole ou un monopsone.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how trust appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Une des prophéties ordinaires qu’on fait à l’avenir des États-Unis est la domination d’un groupe d’organisateurs de trust et de boss politiques.
  2. Devant l'affluence des pèlerins, le cours du zouz ou la taxe du change devait naturellement s'élever ; il n'était pas difficile aux changeurs occupant la place de se liguer dans une sorte de trust à la hausse. La foule subissait leurs conditions exorbitantes ; […].

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 - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

rtust2trrust1trsut2trusst1trustt1truts2ttrust1turst2
Edit distance from "trust"

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "trust"?
"trust" is spelled T-R-U-S-T. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁœst\.
What does "trust" mean?
As a noun, "trust" means: Groupe d’entreprises ou de compagnies industrielles et commerciales qui s’unissent en vue de créer un monopole ou un monopsone.
What words are commonly confused with "trust"?
"trust" is commonly confused with "tus", "tusk", "twist". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "trust"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "trust" is \tʁœst\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "trust" come from?
"trust" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "trust", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list