# carpentry

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈkɑː.pɪn.tri/ · frequency rank #29,956

## Definitions
1. The trade of manipulating materials in order to construct, install, and/or repair buildings or other structures.
2. The trade of manipulating materials in order to construct, install, and/or repair buildings or other structures.
3. A carpenter’s workshop.
4. A collection of timber connected by being framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor, etc.; work done by a carpenter.

## Etymology
From Middle English carpentrie, from Anglo-Norman carpenterie, from Old Northern French (compare French charpenterie). See carpenter.

## Easily confused with
- **carpenter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/carpenter-vs-carpentry)

## Common misspellings (15)
`acrpentry`, `caprentry`, `carepntry`, `carpenntry`, `carpenrty`, `carpentrry`, `carpentryy`, `carpenttry`, `carpentyr`, `carpetnry`, `carpnetry`, `carppentry`, `carrpentry`, `ccarpentry`, `crapentry`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/carpentry