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carpet

car·pet/ˈkɑɹ.pət/noun, verb

carpet is spelled C-A-R-P-E-T: 6 letters and 2 syllables (car·pet). It appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,309th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, carpet means “A fabric used as a complete floor covering” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of carpet is carpets.

How many letters and syllables are in carpet?

Letters6: C-A-R-P-E-T
Syllables2: car·pet
In writing15 times per million words; the 5,309th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is carpet?

Carpet appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,309th 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 carpet?

  • UK /ˈkɑː.pɪt/
  • US /ˈkɑɹ.pət/

Carpet has 2 syllables, split car·pet in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-carpet.ogg, En-us-carpet.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of carpet

  • carpets plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • carpeting participle, present
  • carpeted participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does carpet mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A fabric used as a complete floor covering.

  2. 2

    Any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function.

  3. 3

    Any of a number of moths in the geometrid subfamily Larentiinae

  4. 4

    obsoleteA wrought cover for tables.

  5. 5

    slangvulgarA woman's pubic hair.

verb

  1. 1

    To lay carpet, or to have carpet installed, in an area.

    After the fire, they carpeted over the blackened hardwood flooring.

  2. 2

    To substantially cover something, as a carpet does; to blanket something.

    Popcorn and candy wrappers carpeted the floor of the cinema.

  3. 3

    UKTo reprimand.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate carpet?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of carpet: CPT.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Carpet in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchtapis, moquette (a fabric used as a floor covering), tapisser (to lay carpet)
GermanTeppich, Teppichboden (a fabric used as a floor covering), mit Teppichboden auslegen (to lay carpet), bedecken (to cover like a carpet)
Portuguesecarpete, tapete, alcatifa (a fabric used as a floor covering)
Spanishalfombra, moqueta (a fabric used as a floor covering), alfombrar (to lay carpet), cubrir (to cover like a carpet)

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 carpet come from?

From late Middle English carpette, from Old French carpite, from Medieval Latin carpita or Italian carpita, introduced in the 13th century by the Florentines from the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, from Middle Armenian կարպետ (karpet, “carpet, rug”), earlier կապերտ (kapert).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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