# basket

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈbɑːs.kɪt/ · frequency rank #6,333

## Definitions
1. A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
2. A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
3. A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.
4. In an online shop, a listing of a customer's chosen items before they are ordered.
5. A set or collection of intangible things.
6. A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.
7. The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.
8. The game of basketball.
9. A 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.
10. The penis and region surrounding it.
11. The bulge of the penis seen through clothing.
12. In a stage-coach, two outside seats facing each other.
13. A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.
14. A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.
15. A usually disc-like piece attached near the bottom of a ski pole to prevent it from sinking too deep into the snow.
16. The gondola or wicker basket suspended from the balloon, in which the pilot and passengers travel.
17. The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
18. Bastard.
19. A drogue (or para-drogue) in the probe-and-drogue refueling method
20. Short 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”).

## Easily confused with
- **bast** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/basket-vs-bast)
- **beset** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/basket-vs-beset)
- **bucket** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/basket-vs-bucket)
- **becket** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/basket-vs-becket)
- **Baskin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/basket-vs-baskin)
- **basset** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/basket-vs-basset)
- **blanket** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/basket-vs-blanket)
- **bracket** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/basket-vs-bracket)
- **Bassett** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/basket-vs-bassett)
- **brisket** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/basket-vs-brisket)
- **base** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/base-vs-basket)
- **bake** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bake-vs-basket)
- **bask** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bask-vs-basket)
- **based** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/based-vs-basket)
- **baker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/baker-vs-basket)
- **bases** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bases-vs-basket)
- **baked** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/baked-vs-basket)
- **Basel** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/basel-vs-basket)
- **bakes** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bakes-vs-basket)
- **backed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/backed-vs-basket)

## Common misspellings (9)
`absket`, `bakset`, `basekt`, `baskett`, `baskket`, `baskte`, `bassket`, `bbasket`, `bsaket`

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