Trust

Trust is one of the shortest words in this section of the dictionary, and its brevity keeps its ordinal and Pythagorean totals close to several unrelated short words purely by coincidence of length, not meaning. Its ordinal value of 98 reduces to Eight, a number tied to long-term consequence that fits reasonably well with trust's own nature as something built up gradually rather than granted instantly. The word has Old Norse roots, entering English later than many of the Old English-rooted words on this list, by way of the Viking-era settlement of parts of Britain.