# banquet

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈbæŋkwɪt/ · frequency rank #13,098

## Definitions
1. A large celebratory meal; a feast.
2. A ceremonial dinner party for many people.
3. A dessert; a course of sweetmeats.

## Etymology
From Middle English banket, from Middle French banquet, from Italian banchetto (“light repast between meals, snack eaten on a small bench”, literally “a small bench”), from banco (“bench”), from Lombardic *bank, *panch (“bench”), from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”). Akin to Old High German bank, banch (“bench”), Old English benċ (“bench”). More at bank, bench. The unetymological /w/ resulted from spelling-pronunciation.

## Easily confused with
- **Basque** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/banquet-vs-basque)
- **bouquet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/banquet-vs-bouquet)

## Common misspellings (10)
`abnquet`, `bannquet`, `banqeut`, `banqquet`, `banquett`, `banqute`, `banuqet`, `baqnuet`, `bbanquet`, `bnaquet`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/banquet