Synonyms for bucket

Most common

blade · scoop · vane · rust bucket · beater · pail · bucketful · hoopy

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

Verb

Definitions

1. n. 1

   The part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).

2. n. 2

   An old vehicle that is not in good working order.

3. v. 1

   To rain heavily.

   It’s really bucketing down out there.

4. v. 2

   To travel very quickly.

   The boat is bucketing along.

Related words

Word family

bucketful bucketmouth

Phrases

kick the bucket brain bucket bucket down bit bucket bargain bucket bucket brigade bucket of bolts helicopter bucket

Forms

Plural

buckets → scoops, blades, vanes, crocks…

Past participle

bucketed
e.g. bucketed → shot, sped, rocketed, hurtled…

Example sentences

• blade Yanni was scraping the sticker with a razor blade.
• scoop Can you scoop the ice cream into bowls for dessert?
• vane The wind blew the weather vane off the roof.
• beater Ziri asked Rima if he could borrow her beater.
• pail Tom grabbed his lunch pail and headed for school.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters

wiz¹

4 letters

vane¹, whiz¹, pail¹

5 letters

speed¹, shoot¹, blade¹, wreck¹, scoop¹, crock¹, whizz, hoopy

6 letters

rocket², beater², banger², hurtle², jalopy³

7 letters

shitbox, hooptie

9 letters

bucketful

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (rocket² = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français

seau

Deutsch

Eimer

Català

galleda