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TRUNK

Yes, TRUNK was the Wordle answer on September 28, 2026 (Wordle #1927).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /tɹʌŋk//tɹʊŋk/[t͡ʃɹʌŋk]

Noun

Part of a body.

Noun

A container.

Verb

To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.

Verb

To provide simultaneous network access to multiple clients by sharing a set of circuits, carriers, channels, or frequencies.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

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.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

One syllable Say it TRUHNGK.

Rhymes with DRUNK CHUNK SKUNK SPUNK STUNK

Related meanings

Synonyms body boot TORSO

In a sentence

Did you look in the trunk?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Would you open the trunk?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use TRUNK in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.8% of possible answers.

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Wordle status

A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.

Playable guess

Yes

Included in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.

Possible answer

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: September 28, 2026 (#1927).

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TRUNK in Connections

9 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . Showing the 5 most recent. A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How TRUNK performs as a guess

TRUNK is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 79.5% of games, misses completely in 20.5%, and leaves about 195 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,797 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

T___K T in the 1st position and K in the 5th position T__N_ T in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _R__K R in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position TR_NK T in the 1st position, R in the 2nd position, N in the 4th position, and K in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in TRUNK.

First-turn measures

All four describe TRUNK used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.60 Entropy (bits)
195 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TRUNK performed in the previous complete opener benchmark, against its captured answer snapshot. These research figures are separate from today's solver recommendations. See the data page for the method.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#3,797 Rank among openers
Opening with TRUNK left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #3,797 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
932
4 guesses
1,156
5 guesses
197
6 guesses
12

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
NRTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
29%
All gray
20%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U I T
T R U C K
T R U N K

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TRUNK in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

TRUNK can come back 95 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

489 answers
287 answers
235 answers
176 answers
115 answers
95 answers
83 answers
60 answers
58 answers
55 answers
53 answers
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44 answers
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26 answers
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18 answers
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Letter-value totals

Base letter-value totals for TRUNK; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.

Scrabble

T1R1U1N1K5
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.

Try next

AISLE HAOLE LEAST CANOE CADIE SLIME

Strategy after playing TRUNK

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to TRUNK.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TRUNK:

21% chance
Suggested:
AISLE
12% chance
Suggested:
HAOLE
10% chance
Suggested:
LEAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

Ranked follow-up guesses for the 10 most common feedback patterns.

20.5% →
AISLE 6.12 bits
12.0% →
HAOLE 5.20 bits
9.9% →
LEAST 5.60 bits
7.4% →
CANOE 5.31 bits
4.8% →
CADIE 4.81 bits
4.0% →
SLIME 4.63 bits
3.5% →
SATEM 4.72 bits
2.5% →
SURER 4.69 bits
2.4% →
ALOSE 4.65 bits
2.3% →
AINEE 4.58 bits

Research on TRUNK

Game-tree analysis and word research for TRUNK, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with TRUNK, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #5,026 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.82 guesses at best and is rank #1,809 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TRUNK sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 11 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 88 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.7 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).