Spicket or spigot?
spicket is a noun meaning “Alternative spelling of spigot”; spigot is a noun meaning “A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask”. Wiktionary gives them as spellings of the same word.
What is the difference between spicket and spigot?
| spicket | spigot | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun, verb |
| Meaning | Alternative spelling of spigot | A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask The plug of a faucet, tap or cock To block with a spigot |
| Example | none recorded | none recorded |
| Forms | spickets | spigots |
| Pronunciation | /ˈspɪ.kət/ /spɪ.ɡət/ | /ˈspɪ.ɡət/ /ˈspɪ.kət/ |
| In writing | too rare to measure | about once in every 3 million words |
Sources: spicket and spigot in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of spicket and spigot
spicket
- 1
Alternative spelling of spigot
spigot
- 1
A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask
- 2
To block with a spigot
- 3
The plug of a faucet, tap or cock
- 4
To insert (a spigot)
- 5
USA water tap: a faucet or sillcock
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, spicket or spigot?
spicket appears too rarely to measure; spigot about once in every 3 million words.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search spicket vs spigot?
“spicket vs spigot” is searched about 20 times a month on Bing (Google reports it together with close variants, so it has no figure of its own) in the United States.
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