# biscuit

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈbɪs.kɪt/ · frequency rank #15,966

## Definitions
1. A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.
2. A small, usually soft and flaky bread, generally made with baking soda, which is similar in texture to a scone but which is usually not sweet.
3. A cracker.
4. Any of several hard bread or breadlike foodstuffs, especially those formerly supplied to naval ships and armies, made with very little water, kneaded into flat cakes, and slowly baked, and which often became infested with weevils.
5. A form of unglazed earthenware.
6. A light brown colour.
7. A thin oval wafer of wood or other material inserted into mating slots on pieces of material to be joined to provide gluing surface and strength in shear.
8. A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack.
9. A handgun, especially a revolver.
10. A puck (hockey puck).
11. The head.
12. An inner tube used in the sport of tubing, or biscuiting.

## Etymology
PIE word
 *dwóh₁
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwís
Proto-Italic *dwis
Old Latin duis
Early Medieval Latin bis
Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *pékʷeti
Proto-Italic *kʷekʷō
Early Medieval Latin coquō
Early Medieval Latin coctus
Early Medieval Latin biscoctus
Old French bescuitbor.
Middle English bisquyte
English biscuit
From earlier bisket, from Middle English bisquyte, from Old French bescuit (French biscuit); doublet of biscotto.

## Common misspellings (10)
`bbiscuit`, `bicsuit`, `bisccuit`, `bisciut`, `biscuitt`, `biscuti`, `bisscuit`, `bisucit`, `bsicuit`, `ibscuit`

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