# bunny

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈbʌni/ · frequency rank #8,519

## Definitions
1. A rabbit, especially a juvenile one.
2. A bunny girl: a nightclub waitress who wears a costume having rabbit ears and tail.
3. In basketball, an easy shot (i.e., one right next to the bucket) that is missed.
4. A menstrual pad.
5. Synonym of rabbit (“batsman frequently dismissed by the same bowler”).

## Etymology
From bun (“rabbit”) + -y (diminutive suffix). Probably from Scottish Gaelic bun (“bottom, butt, stump, stub”), from Old Irish bun (“the thick end of anything, base, butt, foot”), from Proto-Celtic *bonus, though its origin is uncertain. Compare also English bum. Together with rabbit, bunny has largely displaced its former rhyme cony (see cony for more).

## Easily confused with
- **buy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bunny-vs-buy)
- **busy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bunny-vs-busy)
- **burn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bunny-vs-burn)
- **bury** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bunny-vs-bury)
- **buns** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bunny-vs-buns)
- **buoy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bunny-vs-buoy)
- **bunt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bunny-vs-bunt)
- **burns** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bunny-vs-burns)
- **burnt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bunny-vs-burnt)
- **busty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bunny-vs-busty)
- **bushy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bunny-vs-bushy)
- **burly** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bunny-vs-burly)
- **busby** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bunny-vs-busby)
- **Burney** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bunny-vs-burney)
- **bun** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bun-vs-bunny)
- **bunk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bunk-vs-bunny)
- **bony** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bony-vs-bunny)
- **Bonn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bonn-vs-bunny)
- **bund** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bund-vs-bunny)
- **bung** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bung-vs-bunny)

## Common misspellings (6)
`bbunny`, `bnuny`, `bunnyy`, `buny`, `bunyn`, `ubnny`

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