truth
/tɹuθ/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.05 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The truth is that our leaders knew a lot more than they were letting on."
- "The truth depends on, and is only arrived at, by a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material."
- "The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time. The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts. Instead “he was the last of the magicians”."
- "There was some truth in his statement that he had no other choice."
- "As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds."
- "Truth to one's own feelings is all-important in life."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *drewH-der. Proto-Germanic *triwwiz Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂der. Proto-Germanic *-iþō Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō Old English trēowþ Middle English trouthe English truth Inherited from Middle English trouthe, from Old English trēowþ, from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō, from *triwwiz + *-iþō. By surface analysis, true + -th. Doublet of troth. Cognate with Norwegian trygd (“trustworthiness, security, insurance”), Icelandic tryggð (“loyalty, fidelity”).
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /tɹuθ/
- British English: /tɹuːθ/