truck
/tɹʌk/noun, verb
truck is spelled T-R-U-C-K: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 44 times per million words in written English, the 2,290th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, truck means “A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of truck is trucks.
How many letters and syllables are in truck?
| Letters | 5: T-R-U-C-K |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 44 times per million words; the 2,290th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is truck?
Truck appears 44 times per million words in written English, the 2,290th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce truck?
- US /tɹʌk/
- /tɹʊk/
Truck has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-truck.ogg, En-au-truck.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with truck?
6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as truck from its last stressed vowel (/ʌk/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of truck
- trucks plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- trucking participle, present
- trucked participle, past
- trock
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does truck mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.
- 2
The ball on top of a flagpole.
- 3
On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout. "Main" refers to the mainmast, whereas a truck on another mast may be called (on the mizzenmast, for example) "mizzen-truck".
- 4
AustraliaCanadaIndiaUSA heavier motor vehicle designed to carry goods or to pull a semi-trailer designed to carry goods; (in Malaysia/Singapore) a such vehicle with a closed or covered carriage.
We rented a truck big enough to carry the whole load in one trip.
- 5
UKA railroad car, chiefly one designed to carry goods.
- 6
Any smaller wagon or cart or vehicle of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or (obsolete) pulled by an animal, used to move and sometimes lift goods, like those in hotels for moving luggage or in libraries for moving books.
- 7
USAbbreviation of railroad truck or wheel truck; a pivoting frame, one attached to the bottom of the bed of a railway car at each end, that rests on the axle and which swivels to allow the axle (at each end of which is a solid wheel) to turn with curves in the track.
- 8
The part of a skateboard or roller skate that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of a hanger, baseplate, kingpin, and bushings, and sometimes mounted with a riser in between.
- 9
obsoleteSmall, humble items; things, often for sale or barter.
- 10
The practice of paying workers in kind, or with tokens only exchangeable at a shop owned by the employer [forbidden in the 19th century by the Truck Acts].
- 11
USGarden produce, groceries (see truck garden).
- 12
Social intercourse; dealings, relationships.
- 13
Relevance, bearing.
verb
- 1
To drive a truck.
My father has been trucking for 20 years.
- 2
To convey by truck.
Last week, Cletus trucked 100 pounds of lumber up to Dubuque.
- 3
USslangTo travel, to proceed.
- 4
CanadaUSslangTo persist, to endure.
Keep on trucking!
- 5
To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.
- 6
slangTo fight or otherwise physically engage with.
- 7
slangTo run over or through a tackler in American football.
- 8
To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.
- 9
To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.
- 10
To deceive; cheat; defraud.
- 11
ScotlandUKTo tread (down); stamp on; trample (down).
- 12
To trade, exchange; barter.
- 13
To engage in commerce; to barter or deal.
- 14
To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Truck in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | camion , conduire un camion |
| German | Lastwagen, LKW, Lastkraftwagen, Laster, Brummi, Lieferwagen |
| Portuguese | caminhão, camião , conduzir um camião, dirigir um caminhão |
| Spanish | camión, camioneta, troca, troque, truck (trok) |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does truck come from?
Perhaps a shortening of truckle, related to Latin trochus (“iron hoop, wheel”) from Ancient Greek τροχός (trokhós).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).