Spicket or spigot?

Solution 1:

spicket

Definition of spicket

chiefly South & Midland [Middle USA] : spigot

(Merriam Webster)

41. Do you use "spigot" or "spicket" to refer to a faucet or tap that water comes out of?

    a. spicket (6.38%)
    b. spigot (66.89%)
    c. I use both interchangeably (2.52%)
    d. I say "spicket" but spell it "spigot" (12.64%)

(Vaux, Bert and Scott Golder. 2003. The Harvard Dialect Survey. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Linguistics Department).

Solution 2:

In a comment, John Lawler wrote:

Just as /d/ and /t/ neutralize after a stressed vowel before an unstressed one (writer/rider, catty/caddy), so do /ɡ/ and /k/, and for the same reason -- vowels are voiced and tend to voice consonants between them, especially short consonants like voiceless stops. This means that it's very hard to hear the difference in that context, and therefore usually not worth making the effort to distinguish them in speech. It isn't, afaik, a geographic phenomenon, just a personal one, though it may be socioeconomic in some cases.

Solution 3:

https://pittsburghspeech.pitt.edu/PittsburghSpeech_PgheseOverview.html

Spicket is very common in the "Pittsburghese" dialect spoken in western pennsylvania, but it is clearly a corruption of "spigot".