# drunk

> English word · Adjective · IPA /dɹʌŋk/ · frequency rank #2,439

## Definitions
1. Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
2. Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.
3. Elated or emboldened.
4. Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.

## Etymology
From Middle English drunke, drunken, ydrunke, ydrunken, from Old English druncen, ġedruncen (“drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz, *gadrunkanaz (“drunk; drunken”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian dronken, West Frisian dronken, Dutch dronken, gedronken, German Low German drunken, bedrunken, German trunken,
getrunken, betrunken, Swedish drucken, Icelandic drukkinn.

## Easily confused with
- **dun** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/drunk-vs-dun)
- **duck** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/drunk-vs-duck)
- **Dunn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/drunk-vs-dunn)
- **dunk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/drunk-vs-dunk)
- **dusk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/drunk-vs-dusk)
- **dune** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/drunk-vs-dune)
- **dung** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/drunk-vs-dung)
- **drury** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/drunk-vs-drury)
- **dunks** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/drunk-vs-dunks)
- **Druze** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/drunk-vs-druze)
- **drunks** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/drunk-vs-drunks)
- **drunken** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/drunk-vs-drunken)
- **Dru** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dru-vs-drunk)
- **drug** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/drug-vs-drunk)
- **drum** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/drum-vs-drunk)
- **dank** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dank-vs-drunk)
- **DINK** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dink-vs-drunk)
- **drink** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/drink-vs-drunk)
- **drugs** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/drugs-vs-drunk)
- **drone** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/drone-vs-drunk)

## Common misspellings (8)
`ddrunk`, `drnuk`, `drrunk`, `drukn`, `drunkk`, `drunnk`, `durnk`, `rdunk`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/drunk