# trunk

> English word · Noun · IPA /tɹʌŋk/ · frequency rank #6,851

## Definitions
1. Part of a body.
2. Part of a body.
3. Part of a body.
4. A container.
5. A container.
6. A container.
7. A container.
8. A channel for flow of some kind.
9. A channel for flow of some kind.
10. A channel for flow of some kind.
11. A channel for flow of some kind.
12. A channel for flow of some kind.
13. In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.
14. The main line or body of anything.
15. The main line or body of anything.
16. The main line or body of anything.
17. A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to the piston, thus making the engine more compact.
18. Ellipsis of swimming trunks.

## Etymology
From Middle English tronke, trunke, from Old French tronc (“alms box, tree trunk, headless body”), from Latin truncus (“a stock, lopped tree trunk”), from truncus (“cut off, maimed, mutilated”). For the verb, compare French tronquer, and see truncate. Doublet of truncus and tronk.

## Easily confused with
- **tun** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trunk-vs-tun)
- **tune** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trunk-vs-tune)
- **tuna** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trunk-vs-tuna)
- **tuck** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trunk-vs-tuck)
- **Turk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trunk-vs-turk)
- **tung** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trunk-vs-tung)
- **tusk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trunk-vs-tusk)
- **trust** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trunk-vs-trust)
- **truth** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trunk-vs-truth)
- **truss** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trunk-vs-truss)
- **twink** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trunk-vs-twink)
- **tryna** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trunk-vs-tryna)
- **Truro** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trunk-vs-truro)
- **trunks** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trunk-vs-trunks)
- **tru** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tru-vs-trunk)
- **true** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/true-vs-trunk)
- **tank** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tank-vs-trunk)
- **trek** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trek-vs-trunk)
- **Tran** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tran-vs-trunk)
- **tink** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tink-vs-trunk)

## Common misspellings (8)
`rtunk`, `trnuk`, `trrunk`, `trukn`, `trunkk`, `trunnk`, `ttrunk`, `turnk`

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