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spicket

/ˈspɪ.kət/

spicket is the alternative spelling of spigot.

Meaning of spigot

Noun

spigot (plural spigots)

  1. A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask.
  2. The plug of a faucet, tap or cock.
  3. (Appalachia, US, especially) A water tap: a faucet or sillcock.
    • I went to the sink and turned the spigot, feeling the cold rush of water upon my hand.1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 323

See all 5 meanings of spigot

Forms of spicket

pluralspickets

Origin of spicket

From Middle English spigot (“wooden stopper”). Probably ultimately from Latin spīca via Old Occitan espiga and one or more dialects of Old French [Term?].

Questions about spicket

What is spicket the alternative spelling of?
Spicket is the alternative spelling of spigot.
How do you pronounce spicket?
Spicket is pronounced /ˈspɪ.kət/.

Words near spicket in the dictionary

  1. Spickard
  2. Spickards
  3. spicker
  4. Spickernell
  5. spickest
  6. spicket
  7. spickets
  8. Spicketts Creek
  9. spickle
  10. Spickler
  11. Spicklers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spicket (page history and authors); spigot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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