Which to use
“carded” is an adjective and “carved” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #39,234
- “carded” frequency rank
- #8,521
- “carved” frequency rank
- 47755
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | carded | carved |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Involving the disentangling of fibers with a carding device. | simple past and past participle of carve |
Letter map: carded vs carved
Shared letters muted; letters that set carded and carved apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. carded and carved follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Part-of-speech tell for carded / carved
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: carded is anadjective and carvedaverb. On the page they differ by a single letter - d in “carded” becomes v in “carved”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47755, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
carded is recorded at frequency rank #39,234, classified as anadj. carved is at rank #8,521, tagged as averb, pronounced /kɑɹvd/.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 47755, this pair ranks #199,512 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of carded vs carved
Shared letters: acder. Private to "carded": -. Private to "carved": v.
"carded" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC · "carved" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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Frequency check: "carded" vs "carved" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
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- Full dictionary entry for "carded" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "carved" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #199,512 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "carded" and "carved" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "carded vs cased". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #199,512 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.