potful
noun
potful is a noun meaning “as much as a pot will hold” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-O-T-F-U-L, and it appears about once in every 98 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of potful is potfuls or potsful.
What does potful mean?
noun
- 1
as much as a pot will hold
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of potful
- potfuls plural
- potsful plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is potful?
Potful appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Potful in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense as much as a pot will hold:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | potée, marmitée |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does potful come from?
From Middle English potful; equivalent to pot + -ful.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).