carr
[kaːr]
The verdict
“carr” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #49,550) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #49,550
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Auto
Corpus desk
Index DE-carr · carr · German
carr · rank #49,550 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,550
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH catalogue
Nearest frequency peer: catalogue (+3 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „carr“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Bussi
Bussi
50,459 corpus weight
- cabaret
cabaret
50,455 corpus weight
- carr
carr
50,451 corpus weight
- catalogue
catalogue
50,448 corpus weight
- channels
channels
50,446 corpus weight
- Chardonnay
Chardonnay
50,445 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „carr“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carr |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaːr] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #49,550 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „carr“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for carr is neighbouring look-alikes ("Cr", "cat", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [kaːr]. Frequency #49,550 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Auto".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for carr, with forms such as "acrr", "ccarr", and "crar". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Cr", "cat", "cry", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is carr, spelled C-A-R-R.
Definition
- 1Auto
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrr
- ccarr
- crar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of carr - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "carr", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).