carry
[ˈkæɹi]
The verdict
“carry” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #38,021. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,021
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tragen
Corpus desk
Index DE-carry · carry · German
carry · rank #38,021 · 6 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,021
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Bundespolitik
Nearest frequency peer: Bundespolitik (-1 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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „carry“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Bronzezeit
Bronzezeit
61,985 corpus weight
- Bundeskrimi…
Bundeskriminalamt
61,982 corpus weight
- Bundespolit…
Bundespolitik
61,981 corpus weight
- carry
carry
61,980 corpus weight
- changes
changes
61,977 corpus weight
- Chefredakte…
Chefredakteurin
61,976 corpus weight
What this shows „carry“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | carry |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈkæɹi] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #38,021 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „carry“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around carry (IPA [ˈkæɹi]), averb. Corpus frequency is #38,021 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for carry, with forms such as "acrry", "carryy", and "cary". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "cry", "cars", "Curry", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is carry, spelled C-A-R-R-Y.
Definition
- 1tragen
- 2mit (jemandem) schwanger sein
- 3führen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how carry appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Each carried a gun under his arm, and a well-bred Irish water-spaniel followed close upon their heels."
When I was carrying you, it was like you were in me but not of me. But you were my first and I thought maybe that's how it is. But with Aharon and Miryam, it was so different. When they were inside me, I talked and sang to them. - Julius Lester, Pharaoh's Daughter: A Novel of Ancient Egypt (2009), Seite 59
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrry
- carryy
- cary
- caryr
- ccarry
- crary
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of carry - 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 "carry", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).