true vs trust, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“true” is an adjective and “trust” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#9,418
“true” frequency rank: #13,855
“trust” frequency rank: 23273
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	true	trust
Definition	verdadeiro, verídico	confiar

Letter map: true vs trust

Shared letters muted; letters that set true and trust apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

4 ch

true

5 ch

trust

Grammar separator: true vs trust

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: true is anadjective and trustaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 23273, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

true is recorded at frequency rank #9,418, classified as anadj, pronounced /truː/. trust is at rank #13,855, tagged as averb.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 23273, this pair ranks #46,585 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of true vs trust

Shared letters: rtu. Private to "true": e. Private to "trust": s.

"true" · 4 letters · shape CCVV · "trust" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

true ← rtue · treu · trrue · ttrue · ture
trust ← rtust · trrust · trsut · trusst · trustt · truts · ttrust · turst

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "true" for "trust" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "true" is an adjective and "trust" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "true" vs "trust" - which ranks higher?

"true" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #9,418 in our Portuguese list, against #13,855 for "trust". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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Full dictionary entry for "true" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "trust" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #46,585 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"true" and "trust" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tique vs true". Nearby pair
Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #46,585 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.