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brocket

UK /ˈbɹɒkɪt/noun

brocket is spelled B-R-O-C-K-E-T: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, brocket means “A stag in its second year, before its horns have started branching” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of brocket is brockets.

How many letters and syllables are in brocket?

Letters7: B-R-O-C-K-E-T
In writingabout once in every 17 million words; the 125,655th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is brocket?

Brocket appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce brocket?

  • UK /ˈbɹɒkɪt/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What rhymes with brocket?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as brocket from its last stressed vowel (/ɒkɪt/, British pronunciation):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of brocket

  • brockets plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does brocket mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A stag in its second year, before its horns have started branching.

    Near-synonyms: knobber, knobbler, pricket, spitter

  2. 2

    A brocket deer, a member of genus Mazama, of short-horned deer of the tropical Americas.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Brocket in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchdaguet (young stag with straight horns)
GermanSpießhirsch (deer of genus Mazama)
Spanishcorzuela (deer of genus Mazama)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does brocket come from?

Borrowed from Middle French brocart, broquart.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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