# budget

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈbʌd͡ʒ.ɪt/ · frequency rank #1,593

## Definitions
1. The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or timeframe.
2. A relatively small amount of available money.
3. An itemized summary of intended expenditure; usually coupled with expected revenue.
4. A wallet, purse or bag.
5. A compact collection of things.
6. A socket in which the end of a cavalry carbine rests.

## Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰólǵʰ-o-s
Proto-Celtic *bolgos
Gaulish bolgābor.
Latin bulgabor.
Old French bouge
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
Latin -ittus
Old French -ete
Old French bougettebor.
Middle English bogett
English budget
Recorded since 1432 as Middle English bogett, bouget, bowgette (“leather pouch”), borrowed from Old French bougette, the diminutive of bouge (“leather bag, wallet”) (also the root of bulge), itself from Late Latin bulga (“leather bag, bellow”), which derives from Gaulish *bolgā (compare Old Irish bolg (“bag”), Breton bolc’h (“flax pod”)), a common root with the Germanic family (compare Dutch balg (“bellows”)), from the Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ-. More at belly.

## Easily confused with
- **bulge** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/budget-vs-bulge)
- **bullet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/budget-vs-bullet)
- **burger** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/budget-vs-burger)
- **buffet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/budget-vs-buffet)
- **bugged** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/budget-vs-bugged)
- **bugger** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/budget-vs-bugger)
- **bungee** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/budget-vs-bungee)
- **burnet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/budget-vs-burnet)
- **bulger** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/budget-vs-bulger)
- **budgets** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/budget-vs-budgets)
- **badge** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/badge-vs-budget)
- **budge** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/budge-vs-budget)
- **bidet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bidet-vs-budget)
- **bucket** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bucket-vs-budget)
- **badger** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/badger-vs-budget)
- **Bridget** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bridget-vs-budget)

## Common misspellings (9)
`bbudget`, `bduget`, `buddget`, `budegt`, `budgett`, `budgget`, `budgte`, `bugdet`, `ubdget`

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