How to spell basket

hear itbas·ket/'bæskɪt/nounRules and real life

What it means: A container that is usually woven and has handles.

In a sentence: Lina carried apples in her basket to the picnic.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as baskit or bascet.

Same family: basketball, basketful, basketry, net, hoop. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Basket comes from Old French “basket,” meaning a small woven container. The same word later began to be used for the metal hoop in basketball, because early goals sometimes used actual peach baskets.

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