# closet

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈklɒzɪt/ · frequency rank #5,770

## Definitions
1. A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.
2. Any private space, (particularly) bowers in the open air.
3. Any private or inner room, (particularly)
4. Any private or inner room, (particularly):
5. Any private or inner room, (particularly):
6. Any private or inner room, (particularly):
7. Any private or inner room, (particularly):
8. A pew or side-chapel reserved for a monarch or other feudal lord.
9. A private cabinet, (particularly):
10. A private cabinet, (particularly):
11. A private cabinet, (particularly):
12. A private cabinet, (particularly):
13. Any small room or side room.
14. Any small room or side room.
15. An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad.
16. A sewer.
17. A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity.
18. A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity.
19. A compendium of knowledge, possibly from closet as a room?

## Etymology
From Middle English closet, from Old French closet, from clos (“private space”) + -et (diminutive suffix), from Latin clausum. Equivalent to close + -et, but generally applied in French solely to small open-air enclosures.

## Easily confused with
- **cost** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/closet-vs-cost)
- **clot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/closet-vs-clot)
- **comet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/closet-vs-comet)
- **clout** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/closet-vs-clout)
- **clove** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/closet-vs-clove)
- **covet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/closet-vs-covet)
- **clover** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/closet-vs-clover)
- **cloves** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/closet-vs-cloves)
- **corset** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/closet-vs-corset)
- **closeup** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/closet-vs-closeup)
- **closeted** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/closet-vs-closeted)
- **Clos** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clos-vs-closet)
- **close** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/close-vs-closet)
- **chose** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chose-vs-closet)
- **clone** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clone-vs-closet)
- **closed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/closed-vs-closet)
- **closer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/closer-vs-closet)
- **chosen** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chosen-vs-closet)
- **closes** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/closes-vs-closet)
- **claret** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/claret-vs-closet)

## Common misspellings (8)
`ccloset`, `clloset`, `cloest`, `closett`, `closte`, `clsoet`, `colset`, `lcoset`

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