carport
/ˈkɑː(ɹ).pɔːt/noun
carport is a noun meaning “A roofed structure for automobile storage, usually attached to a house and not fully enclosed like a garage but with at least one side open to the…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-A-R-P-O-R-T and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 6 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of carport is carports.
What does carport mean?
noun
- 1
A roofed structure for automobile storage, usually attached to a house and not fully enclosed like a garage but with at least one side open to the outdoors.
Near-synonym: porte cochère (not always differentiated)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce carport?
- UK /ˈkɑː(ɹ).pɔːt/
Carport 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-carport.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of carport
- carports plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is carport?
Carport appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 70,702nd 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).
Carport in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense roofed structure for automobile storage:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | auvent |
| German | Carport |
| Spanish | cochera, marquesina, pórtico, soportal |
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 carport come from?
From car + port, coined by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1936 and modeled on the French porte cochère (literally “coach entrance”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).