TRUST
Yes, TRUST was the Wordle answer on November 16, 2023 (Wordle #880).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /tɹʌst/[t͡ʃʰɹ̥ʌst]/tɹɐst/
- Noun
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Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
“He needs to regain her trust if he is ever going to win her back.”
- Noun
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Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
- Verb
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To place confidence in, to rely on, to confide in.
“We cannot trust anyone who deceives us.”
- Verb
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To have faith in; to rely on for continuing support or aid.
“In God We Trust”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English trust, trost (“trust, protection”). Long considered a borrowing from Old Norse traust (“confidence, help, protection”), from Proto-Germanic *traustą, but the root vocalism is incompatible, so trust has come to be considered a reflex of an unattested Old English *trust, from a rare zero-grade Proto-Germanic variant of the same root also attested in Middle High German getrüste (“host”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“be firm, hard, solid”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it TRUHST.
Related meanings
Synonyms believe hope FAITH confidence desire commit
Opposites distrust mistrust
In a sentence
I trust you with it.
I trust all of you.
Use TRUST in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 90.6% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: November 16, 2023 (#880).
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2 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #721
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TRUST appeared in ___ FUND (purple group).
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· Puzzle #400
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TRUST appeared in REGARD AS TRUE (yellow group).
How TRUST performs as a guess
TRUST is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 75.3% of games, misses completely in 24.7%, and leaves about 224 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,735 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe TRUST used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How TRUST performed in the previous complete opener benchmark, against its captured answer snapshot. These research figures are separate from today's solver recommendations. See the data page for the method.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches TRUST in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
TRUST can come back 96 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for TRUST; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
Try next
Strategy after playing TRUST
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to TRUST.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing TRUST:
Research on TRUST
Game-tree analysis and word research for TRUST, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with TRUST, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #8,129 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.88 guesses at best and is rank #3,820 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, because the two figures score different answer lists.
These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- TRUST sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 135 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Learner level
- Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 29 of 100. Raters found it difficult to picture.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).