trunks
/tɹʌŋks/noun, verb
trunks is spelled T-R-U-N-K-S: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 2.7 times per million words in written English, the 16,455th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, trunks means “Shorts or briefs used especially for sports” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in trunks?
| Letters | 6: T-R-U-N-K-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.7 times per million words; the 16,455th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is trunks?
Trunks appears 2.7 times per million words in written English, the 16,455th 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 trunks?
- /tɹʌŋks/
Trunks 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-trunks.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does trunks mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Shorts or briefs used especially for sports.
- 2
Swimming trunks.
- 3
Trunkhose.
- 4
Trunk briefs.
- 5
UKMen’s or boys’ boxer shorts or boxer briefs.
- 6
The game of nineholes.
- 7
plural of trunk
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of trunk
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Trunks in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense swimwear:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | bermuda |
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.