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How to spell truck

hear ittruck/trək/nounSounds

What it means: A vehicle for transporting goods.

In a sentence: The red truck drove down the bumpy road.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as truk or tuck.

Same family: trucks, truckload, truckdriver, pickup-truck, dump-truck. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word “truck” comes from the Greek word “trochos,” meaning ‘wheel,’ and entered English through Latin and French. It originally referred to small wheeled vehicles before becoming the common name for large motor vehicles that carry heavy loads.

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