Carrot or karat?
carrot is a noun meaning “A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in…”; karat is a noun meaning “Alternative spelling of carat”. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) carrot is about 9.8 times as common as karat.
What is the difference between carrot and karat?
| carrot | karat | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun, verb | noun |
| Meaning | A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, family Apiaceae, especially the subspecies sativus A shade of orange similar to the flesh of most carrots (also called carrot orange) To treat (an animal pelt) with a solution of mercuric nitrate as part of felt manufacture | USAlternative spelling of carat |
| Example | none recorded | none recorded |
| Forms | carrots | karats |
| Pronunciation | /ˈkæɹət/ /ˈkɛɹət/ | not recorded |
| In writing | 4.2 times per million words | about once in every 2 million words |
Sources: carrot and karat in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of carrot and karat
carrot
- 1
A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, family Apiaceae, especially the subspecies sativus
- 2
To treat (an animal pelt) with a solution of mercuric nitrate as part of felt manufacture
- 3
A shade of orange similar to the flesh of most carrots (also called carrot orange)
- 4
Any motivational tool; an incentive to do something
- 5
UKderogatoryslangSomeone from a rural background
- 6
UKslangA police officer from somewhere within the British Isles, but specifically outside of Greater London
- 7
slangA redhead; a ginger-haired person
karat
- 1
USAlternative spelling of carat
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, carrot or karat?
carrot appears 4.2 times per million words; karat about once in every 2 million words.
carrot 4.2 times per million wordskarat about once in every 2 million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).