career

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for career is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kəˈɹɪə/. Corpus data places it at rank #896 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for career, with forms such as "acreer", "caerer", and "careerr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "carr", "Cree", "cares", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: Mid 16th century, from French carrière (“road; racecourse”), from Italian carriera, from Old Occitan carreira, from Late Latin carrāria based on Latin carrus (“wheeled vehicle”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from *ḱers- (“to run”); alternati… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is career, spelled C-A-R-E-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.