truck: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 11 letter points · starts with T · ends with K
Meaning of truck
noun
- countable, uncountable
A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.
- countable, uncountable
The ball on top of a flagpole.
- countable, uncountable
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".
- Australia, Canada, India, US, countable, uncountable
A 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.
Example: We rented a truck big enough to carry the whole load in one trip.
Listed forms: trucks.
Source: Wiktionary — truck.
verb
- intransitive
To drive a truck.
Example: My father has been trucking for 20 years.
- transitive
To convey by truck.
Example: Last week, Cletus trucked 100 pounds of lumber up to Dubuque.
- US, intransitive, slang
To travel, to proceed.
- Canada, US, intransitive, slang
To persist, to endure.
Example: Keep on trucking!
Listed forms: trucks, trucking, trucked.
Source: Wiktionary — truck.
verb
- dialectal, intransitive
To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.
- dialectal, intransitive
To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.
- dialectal, intransitive
To deceive; cheat; defraud.
Listed forms: trucks, trucking, trucked, trock.
Source: Wiktionary — truck.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for truck.
noun
an automotive vehicle suitable for hauling
noun
a handcart that has a frame with two low wheels and a ledge at the bottom and handles at the top; used to move crates or other heavy objects
- hand truck
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
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| American English | Found |
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Letter-value score of truck
T(1) + R(1) + U(1) + C(3) + K(5) = 11 points.
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Anagrams of truck
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from truck
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