basket
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "basket", 6-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "basket" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "basket" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
basket is aEnglishnoun. It means: A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom. Pronounced /ˈbɑːs.kɪt/. It ranks #6,333 in English word frequency. Often confused with bast and beset.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | basket |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbɑːs.kɪt/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,333 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for basket is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈbɑːs.kɪt/. Corpus data places it at rank #6,333 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 20 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for basket, with forms such as "absket", "bakset", and "basekt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bast", "beset", "bucket", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *baskis Proto-Brythonicder. Late Latin bascauda Anglo-Norman bascatbor. Middle English basket English basket From Middle English basket, from Anglo-Norman baschet, basket, bascat, of obscure origin. One theory is that it derives … Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is basket, spelled B-A-S-K-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
- 2A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
- 3A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.
- 4In an online shop, a listing of a customer's chosen items before they are ordered.
- 5A set or collection of intangible things.
- 6A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.
- 7The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.
- 8The game of basketball.
- 9A dance movement in some line dances, where men put their arms round the women's lower backs, and the women put their arms over the men's shoulders, and the group (usually of four, any more is difficult) spins round, which should result in the women's feet leaving the ground.
- 10The penis and region surrounding it.
- 11The bulge of the penis seen through clothing.
- 12In a stage-coach, two outside seats facing each other.
- 13A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.
- 14A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.
- 15A usually disc-like piece attached near the bottom of a ski pole to prevent it from sinking too deep into the snow.
- 16The gondola or wicker basket suspended from the balloon, in which the pilot and passengers travel.
- 17The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
- 18Bastard.
- 19A drogue (or para-drogue) in the probe-and-drogue refueling method
- 20Short for basket of goods
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *baskis Proto-Brythonicder. Late Latin bascauda Anglo-Norman bascatbor. Middle English basket English basket From Middle English basket, from Anglo-Norman baschet, basket, bascat, of obscure origin. One theory is that it derives from Late Latin bascauda (“kettle, table-vessel”), from Proto-Brythonic (in Breton baskodenn), from Proto-Celtic *baskis (“bundle, load”), from purported Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle”), but this is now widely viewed as a substrate word for phonetic reasons. Related to Latin fascis (“bundle, package, load”) (whence English fasces), Albanian bokshe (“bundle”), Breton bac'h (“bundle, load”), Ancient Greek φάκελος (phákelos) and βάσκιοι (báskioi) (“bundle (of sticks)”); see also faggot (“(originally) bundle of sticks”).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: absket,bakset,basekt,baskett,baskket,baskte,bassket,bbasket,bsaket
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Misspelling Variants of "basket"
Frequency rank: #6,333 in English
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