English homophones
carat/carrot
"carrot" (#12,560 written frequency) beats "carat" (#23,773) in this 2-word /ˈkæ.ɹət/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈkæ.ɹət/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "carrot" leads at #12,560, with "carat" trailing at #23,773.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "car" then splits - "carat" (5 letters) vs "carrot" (6).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across carat, carrot: acrt. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
carat
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCVC
Inventory acrt · no private letters vs siblings
carrot
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCVC
Inventory acort · private o
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "carat" when you mean: A metric unit of mass equal to exactly 200 mg, chiefly used for measuring precious stones and pearls.
- Write "carrot" when you mean: A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, family Apiaceae, especially the subspecie…
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
Each spelling
noun · /ˈkæ.ɹət/ · #23,773 frequency
A metric unit of mass equal to exactly 200 mg, chiefly used for measuring precious stones and pearls.
noun · /ˈkæɹ.ət/ · #12,560 frequency
A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, family Apiaceae, especially the subspecies sativus.
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (carat, carrot). Here's where to go from here.
- "carrot" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #12,560 in English). Full entry
- Among English homophone groups, a cluster of 2 spellings ranks #133 by size (1,007 groups in this vintage). Corpus statistics
- Explore a nearby 2-spelling cluster: carol · Carroll. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "carat, carrot" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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