bucket

1. 1.

   put into a bucket

   Broaderput
2. 2.

   carry in a bucket

   Broadertransport

Other forms of bucket

plural

buckets·

past tense

bucketted·

present participle

bucketting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bucket

What does bucket mean?

bucket means "a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bucket?

bucket has 2 syllables: buc-ket. The stress falls on "buc". In IPA it is /ˈbʌkət/.

What is another word for bucket?

Close synonyms include pail, bucketful. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bucket a common word?

bucket is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.