Barrel

/ˈbæɹ(ə)l/

Synonyms for "barrel" (183 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (37)

Noun(9 words)
caskdrumgun barrelagebarrel capacitybarrelfulbblbuttcareen

Strong matches (55)

Noun(8 words)
caskschargedashgun tubehandgun barrelhogsheadshurtlehurtling
Verb(1 words)
hurtles

Related words (91)

Noun(13 words)
oil measurepackpreserverifle barrelscuttlebuttstorestowtearthunderingtuntunsunit of volumevolume unit

Choosing the right synonym

  • Closest matches in this entry: cask, drum, gun barrel, abundance, acres.
  • Sentence evidence is available for barrel, so synonym choice can be checked against real usage rather than a flat word list.
  • Ranking signals come from wordnet, opengloss, moby, derived_reverse, and related lexical sources.

Synonym selection checklist

  • Match the part of speech before comparing meanings.
  • Check whether the synonym changes intensity, formality, or emotional tone.
  • Read the replacement inside the full sentence, not just beside "barrel".
  • Prefer the clearest word over the most unusual word when writing for speed or comprehension.

When not to replace "barrel"

Keep "barrel" when the sentence already sounds natural, when a synonym would add unintended emphasis, or when readers need the most familiar wording. A synonym should clarify or sharpen the message, not simply make the sentence look more varied.

If two options seem close, choose the one that best matches the audience and purpose of the sentence.

Replacement workflow

1. Preserve meaning

Choose a synonym only if it keeps the core idea of "barrel" intact in the sentence you are editing.

2. Tune tone

Check whether the replacement sounds more formal, casual, emotional, technical, or forceful than the original word.

3. Re-read context

Read the full sentence after the swap. Keep the synonym only when the sentence becomes clearer or more precise.

Review note: Synonym lists are ranked with lexical data and reviewed for practical writing value. Use the comparison notes, sentence evidence, and source labels together; a high-ranking synonym can still be wrong when the audience, register, or grammar changes.

Final fit check

After choosing a replacement for "barrel", read the sentence once for meaning and once for rhythm. The best synonym should feel natural in the full sentence, not only accurate in a word list.

If the synonym makes the sentence slower, vaguer, or more dramatic than intended, keep "barrel" or choose a simpler alternative from the closest-match group.

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

25 entries
British capacity unitImperial capacity unitUnited States liquid unitadvanceagecontainercontainerfulcylinderfirearm componentlaymeasurement unitmoveplaceposepositionpreserve

Showing 16 of 25 words.

More specific

12 entries
beer barrelcareendashgasoline barrelhandgun barrelhurtleoak barreloil barrelrifle barrelwhiskey agingwine agingwine barrel

Collocations

11 entries
barrel agingbarrel chestbarrel makerbarrel rollbarrel stavebarrel vaultbeer barreloak barrelwhiskey barrelwine barrelwooden barrel

Inflections

5 entries

Derivations

3 entries

Translations

131 translations across 89 languages.

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Afrikaans

1 entries
  • vat noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Albanian

1 entries
  • tytë noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Ancient Greek

1 entries
  • πίθος noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Arabic

2 entries
  • برميل noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • بِرْمِيل noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Armenian

1 entries
  • տակառ noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Azerbaijani

1 entries
  • çəllək noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Belarusian

1 entries
  • бо́чка noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Bengali

1 entries
  • পিপা noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Bulgarian

3 entries
  • бу́ре noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • бъ́чва noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • ка́ца noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Burmese

2 entries
  • စည် noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • စည်ပိုင်း noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Catalan

4 entries
  • barral noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • barril noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • bocoi noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • bóta noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Cherokee

1 entries
  • ᏒᏙᏂ noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries
  • 桶 noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 桶 noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Church Slavic

1 entries
  • бъчька noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Cornish

1 entries
  • balyer noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Czech

2 entries
  • bečka noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • sud noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Danish

2 entries
  • fad noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • tønde noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Dutch

2 entries
  • ton noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • vat noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • barelo noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Estonian

1 entries
  • vaat noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Faroese

1 entries
  • tunna noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Finnish

1 entries
  • tynnyri noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

French

3 entries
  • barrique noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • futaille noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • tonneau noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Georgian

1 entries
  • კასრი noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

German

3 entries
  • Fass noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • Gebinde noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • Tonne noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Greek

1 entries
  • βαρέλι noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • חָבִית noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Hindi

1 entries
  • पीपा noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • hordó noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Icelandic

1 entries
  • tunna noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • tong noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Ingrian

3 entries
  • bocka noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • puin noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • pytty noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Iranian Persian

1 entries
  • چلیک noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Irish

1 entries
  • bairille noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Italian

2 entries
  • barile noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • botte noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Japanese

1 entries
  • 樽 noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Kannada

1 entries
  • ಪೀಪಾಯಿ noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Kazakh

1 entries
  • бөшке noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Khmer

2 entries
  • តុង noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • ធុង noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Korean

1 entries
  • 통 noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Kyrgyz

1 entries
  • бочка noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Lao

3 entries
  • ກະຖັງ noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • ກະໂຫລ່ງ noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • ຖັງ noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Latgalian

1 entries
  • buca noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Latin

2 entries
  • cupa noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • dolium noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Latvian

1 entries
  • muca noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Lingala

1 entries
  • pipa noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Lithuanian

1 entries
  • stati̇̀nė noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Luxembourgish

1 entries
  • Faass noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Macedonian

1 entries
  • буре noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Malay

1 entries
  • tong noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Maltese

1 entries
  • bittija noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Manx

1 entries
  • stoandey noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Middle French

1 entries
  • tonnel noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Mongolian

2 entries
  • боошиг noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • торх noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Māori

1 entries
  • kāho noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Norman

1 entries
  • bathi noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries
  • fat noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • tønne noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Norwegian Nynorsk

3 entries
  • fat noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • tunne noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • tønne noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Old English

1 entries
  • tunne noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Old French

1 entries
  • tonel noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Ottoman Turkish

2 entries
  • شرابخانه noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • فوچی noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Persian

3 entries
  • بُشکِه noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • تنکه noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • پیپ noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Polabian

1 entries
  • klådă noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Polish

1 entries
  • beczka noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • barril noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Romanian

2 entries
  • bute noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • butoi noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Russian

1 entries
  • бо́чка noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries
  • baraille noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries
  • bȁčva noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • bȕre noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • ба̏чва noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • бу̏ре noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Slovak

1 entries
  • sud noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Slovene

1 entries
  • sod noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Spanish

4 entries
  • barrica noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • barril noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • bocoy noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • cuñete noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Sudovian

1 entries
  • kanove noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Swahili

1 entries
  • pipa noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Swedish

3 entries
  • fat noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • oljefat noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • tunna noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Tajik

1 entries
  • бочка noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Thai

1 entries
  • ถัง noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Tibetan

2 entries
  • ཆུ་ཟོམ noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • ཟོམ noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Turkish

1 entries
  • varil noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Turkmen

1 entries
  • çelek noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • бо́чка noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Urdu

1 entries
  • پیپا noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Uyghur

2 entries
  • تۇڭ noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • چېلەك noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Uzbek

1 entries
  • bochka noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Vietnamese

3 entries
  • thùng rượu noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • thùng tonneau noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
  • thùng tròn noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Walloon

1 entries
  • tonea noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Welsh

1 entries
  • casgen noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Yiddish

1 entries
  • פֿאַס noun (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)

Sample sentences

26 total sentences available.

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The GOP accused the Democrats of pork barrel politics.

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Middle Eastern oil prices jumped by five dollars per barrel.

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One rotten apple spoils the barrel.

Source: tatoeba (319421)

In 1835, a barrel of flour cost six dollars.

Source: tatoeba (807498)

Showing 4 of 26 available sentences.

Common questions

What are the closest synonyms for "barrel"?

Closest matches include cask, drum, gun barrel, abundance, acres.

How should I check whether a synonym fits "barrel"?

Compare the replacement against real sentence context. This entry includes sample sentences so you can check tone, grammar, and meaning before swapping words.

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