carcass
car·cass/ˈkɑɹkəs/noun
carcass is spelled C-A-R-C-A-S-S, 2 syllables: car·cass. The wrong spelling people search most is carcus: about 380 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Carcass is a noun meaning “The body of a dead animal, especially a vertebrate or other animal having flesh”. The plural of carcass is carcasses.
How many letters and syllables are in carcass?
| Letters | 7: C-A-R-C-A-S-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: car·cass |
| In writing | 1.6 times per million words; the 22,073rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, carcus, about 380 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell carcass?
Carcass is spelled C-A-R-C-A-S-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for carcass in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is carcass?
Carcass appears 1.6 times per million words in written English, the 22,073rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce carcass?
- US /ˈkɑɹkəs/
- UK /ˈkɑːkəs/
Carcass has 2 syllables, split car·cass in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-carcass.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with carcass?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as carcass from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɹkəs/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of carcass
- carcasses plural
- carcase
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does carcass mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The body of a dead animal, especially a vertebrate or other animal having flesh.
- 2
The body of a slaughtered animal, stripped of unwanted viscera, etc.
- 3
The body of a dead human, a corpse.
- 4
slangThe body of a live person or animal.
- 5
The framework of a structure, such as a cabinet, especially one not normally seen.
- 6
An early incendiary ship-to-ship projectile consisting of an iron shell filled with saltpetre, sulphur, resin, turpentine, antimony and tallow with vents for flame.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Carcass in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | carcasse, cadavre |
| German | Kadaver |
| Portuguese | carcaça , esqueleto |
| Spanish | cadáver, fiambre , carcasa |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does carcass come from?
Dated from the late 13th Century C.E.; from Anglo-Norman carcois, possibly related to Old French charcois. Cognate with French carcasse. But cf. also Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬵𐬭𐬐𐬁𐬯𐬀 (kahrkās, “vulture”), and Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (klkʾs /kargās/, “vulture”), whence Persian کرکس (karkas, “vulture”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).