A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.
The ball on top of a flagpole.
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".
To travel, to proceed.
TRUCK is a 5-letter word with 1 vowel (U) and 4 consonants (T, R, C, K). Every letter is distinct, so it rarely punishes a clean opening guess.
It leans on high-frequency letters (T, R), so a strong vowel-and-common-consonant opener tends to light up quickly. Watch for the less-common letter K — saving a guess to test it once the vowels are placed is usually the fastest route.
Across the 1,734 curated answers in the Wordocious bank, R appears in 37% of answers (the 3rd most common letter), T appears in 30% of answers (the 4th most common letter), C appears in 19% of answers (the 10th most common letter). 29 other answers share the opening “TR-”, so two purple tiles up front still leave real guessing to do.
Difficulty: 3/5 — moderate, because it uses at least one genuinely rare letter, and 4+ near-miss answers compete for the same greens.
One letter away in the answer bank: TRUNK, TRICK, TRUCE, TRACK. Each of these turns four tiles purple against TRUCK — the classic endgame squeeze where spending a guess on the differing letter beats burning attempts on hope.
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Definitions adapted from Wiktionary via the Free Dictionary API (CC BY-SA). Letter statistics, difficulty ratings, and near-miss analysis are original Wordocious research computed from our curated answer list.
