trust
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, trust sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2strut, sturt
- One letter away
- 3crust, truss
What it means
- nounsomething (as property) held by one party (the trustee) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary)
- nouncertainty based on past experience
- nounthe trait of believing in the honesty and reliability of others
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t r ah1 s t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
30 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- adjust
- bused
- bust
- crust
- discussed
- disgust
- distrust
- dust
- entrust
- fussed
- gust
- just
- lust
- mistrust
- must
- readjust
- robust
- rust
- sawdust
- thrust
- unjust
- antitrust
- bussed
- combust
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: strut, sturt.
One letter away
- crust
- truss
- tryst
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.
Lists it belongs to
Tier: everyday. The tiers come from the English Speller Database and rank by list size, not by how often a word is used — see where the words come from.