a wordThe dozen
also: a dozen · half dozen · baker's dozen
You do not buy one. You buy twelve and eat two in the car.
The unit donuts are sold in, and the reason for the box.
The extra one is an old trade practice against selling short weight. Tradition · this-project
The story Tradition
Tradition holds — the dozen is the trade's unit because a box holds twelve in a single layer without crushing, and because a shop prices twelve below twelve times one to move the tray. A baker's dozen is thirteen, an old trade practice of adding one to be safe against a short weight.
This project has not found a published history of donut dozen pricing in the United States and does not invent one.
The particulars
| part of speech | noun |
|---|---|
| region | The United States |
| confidence | medium · updated 2026-09-16 |
Who it runs with
Who talks about it
Where we got it
- Pink Box — this project's own reasoning
Where it came from: Cited a source we name · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Tradition what the tradition says, hedged · Inference this project's reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.