# hutch

> English word · Noun · IPA /hʌt͡ʃ/ · frequency rank #27,502

## Definitions
1. A box, chest, crate, case or cabinet.
2. A coop or cage for keeping small animals (rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, etc).
3. A piece of furniture in which items may be displayed.
4. A cabinet for storing dishes.
5. A piece of furniture (cabinet) to be placed on top of a desk.
6. A measure of two Winchester bushels.
7. The case of a flour bolt.
8. A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
9. A jig or trough for ore dressing or washing ore.
10. A baker's kneading-trough.
11. The pavilion or dressing room.
12. An embankment built in a river to check erosion caused by running water.

## Etymology
From Middle English hucche (“storage chest”), variation of whucce, from Old English hwiċe, hwiċċe (“box, chest”). Spelling influenced by Old French huche (“chest”), from Medieval Latin hūtica, from a different Germanic root, from Frankish *hutta, from Proto-Germanic *hudjō, *hudjǭ (“box, hut, hutch”). Akin to Old English hȳdan (“to conceal; hide”). More at hide, hut.
(cricket pavilion or dressing room): An extension of the rabbit metaphor.

## Easily confused with
- **huts** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hutch-vs-huts)
- **Hutt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hutch-vs-hutt)
- **Hutu** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hutch-vs-hutu)
- **huh** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/huh-vs-hutch)
- **hut** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hut-vs-hutch)
- **Hugh** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hugh-vs-hutch)
- **hath** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hath-vs-hutch)
- **hush** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hush-vs-hutch)
- **huck** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/huck-vs-hutch)
- **hatch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hatch-vs-hutch)
- **hitch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hitch-vs-hutch)
- **hunch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hunch-vs-hutch)
- **hooch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hooch-vs-hutch)

## Common misspellings (8)
`hhutch`, `htuch`, `hucth`, `hutcch`, `hutchh`, `huthc`, `huttch`, `uhtch`

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