carnage
/ˈkɑɹ.nɪd͡ʒ/noun
carnage is spelled C-A-R-N-A-G-E. The wrong spelling people search most is carnige: about 110 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 25 of all searches for the word. Carnage is a noun meaning “Death and destruction”. The plural of carnage is carnages.
How many letters and syllables are in carnage?
| Letters | 7: C-A-R-N-A-G-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.0 times per million words; the 19,589th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, carnige, about 110 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 carnage?
Carnage is spelled C-A-R-N-A-G-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 19 of the searches for carnage 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 carnage?
Carnage appears 2.0 times per million words in written English, the 19,589th 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 carnage?
- UK /ˈkɑː.nɪdʒ/
- US /ˈkɑɹ.nɪd͡ʒ/
Carnage has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-carnage.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with carnage?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as carnage (/ɑɹnɪdʒ/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: cranage.
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 carnage
- carnages plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does carnage mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Death and destruction.
There was carnage after the school play ended with 96 deaths.
- 2
The corpses, gore, etc. that remain after a massacre.
- 3
Any great loss by a team; a game in which one team wins overwhelmingly.
The game against Sri Lanka and Australia was carnage with Australia winning by 287 runs.
- 4
slangA heavy drinking binge and its aftermath.
- 5
slangAny chaotic situation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Carnage in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense death and destruction:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | carnage |
| German | Gemetzel, Abschlachtung |
| Portuguese | massacre, carnagem |
| Spanish | carnicería, mortandad, mortaldad, escabechina, degollina, carnaje |
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 carnage come from?
Borrowed from Middle French carnage, from a Norman or Picard variant Old Northern French) of Old French charnage, from char (“flesh”), or from Vulgar Latin *carnaticum (“slaughter of animals”), itself from Latin carnem, accusative of caro (“flesh”). By surface analysis, Latin carn- + -age.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).