# crockery

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈkɹɒkəɹi/ · frequency rank #45,866

## Definitions
1. Crocks or earthenware vessels, especially domestic utensils, collectively.
2. Dishes, plates, and similar tableware collectively, usually made of some ceramic material, used for serving food on and eating from.

## Etymology
From crocker (“(obsolete) potter”) + -ery (suffix with the sense ‘a class, group, or collection of’ forming nouns). Crocker is derived from crock (“earthenware or stoneware jar or storage container”) + -er (suffix attached to nouns indicating persons whose occupations are indicated by the nouns); crock is from Middle English crok, crokke (“earthenware jar, pot, or other container; cauldron; belly, stomach”) [and other forms], from Old English crocc, crocca (“crock, pot, vessel”) [and other forms], from Proto-Germanic *krukkō, *krukkô (“vessel”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *grewg- (“vessel”).

## Easily confused with
- **Croker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/crockery-vs-croker)
- **Crockett** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/crockery-vs-crockett)
- **cocker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cocker-vs-crockery)
- **cracker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cracker-vs-crockery)
- **cookery** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cookery-vs-crockery)
- **crocker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/crocker-vs-crockery)
- **crackers** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/crackers-vs-crockery)

## Common misspellings (13)
`ccrockery`, `corckery`, `crcokery`, `crocckery`, `crocekry`, `crockerry`, `crockeryy`, `crockeyr`, `crockkery`, `crockrey`, `crokcery`, `crrockery`, `rcockery`

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