# bucket

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈbʌk.ɪt/ · frequency rank #6,338

## Definitions
1. A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
2. The amount held in this container.
3. A large amount of liquid.
4. A great deal of anything.
5. A unit of measure equal to four gallons.
6. Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
7. Someone who habitually uses crack cocaine.
8. An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
9. The basket.
10. A field goal.
11. A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
12. A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
13. A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam.
14. A bucket bag.
15. The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.
16. The pitcher in certain orchids.
17. A helmet.

## Etymology
From Middle English buket, boket, partly from Old English bucc ("bucket, pitcher"; mod. dialectal buck), equivalent to bouk + -et; and partly from Anglo-Norman buket, buquet (“tub; pail”) (compare Norman boutchet, Norman bouquet), diminutive of Old French buc (“abdomen; object with a cavity”), from Vulgar Latin *būcus (compare Occitan and Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca (“hole, gap”)), from Frankish *būk (“belly, stomach”). Both the Old English and Frankish terms derive from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, stomach”). More at bouk.

## Easily confused with
- **Bucks** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bucket-vs-bucks)
- **burke** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bucket-vs-burke)
- **bucky** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bucket-vs-bucky)
- **budget** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bucket-vs-budget)
- **bullet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bucket-vs-bullet)
- **bunker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bucket-vs-bunker)
- **buffet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bucket-vs-buffet)
- **buckle** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bucket-vs-buckle)
- **burnet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bucket-vs-burnet)
- **Buckley** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bucket-vs-buckley)
- **buckeye** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bucket-vs-buckeye)
- **buckles** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bucket-vs-buckles)
- **Buckner** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bucket-vs-buckner)
- **buck** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/buck-vs-bucket)
- **backed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/backed-vs-bucket)
- **basket** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/basket-vs-bucket)
- **Becker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/becker-vs-bucket)
- **backer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/backer-vs-bucket)
- **becket** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/becket-vs-bucket)
- **bicker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bicker-vs-bucket)

## Common misspellings (9)
`bbucket`, `bcuket`, `buccket`, `bucekt`, `buckett`, `buckket`, `buckte`, `bukcet`, `ubcket`

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