carrack
/ˈkæɹək/
"carrack" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“carrack” is uncommon English (frequency #94,658 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,658
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A large European sailing vessel of the 14th to 17th centuries similar to a caravel but square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast and lateen-rigged on the mizzenmast.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carrack |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkæɹək/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #94,658 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “carrack” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
carrack is uncommon English at frequency #94,658 among 43,570 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkæɹək/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A large European sailing vessel of the 14th to 17th centuries similar to a caravel but square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast and lateen-rigged on the mizzenmast.".
Zero misspellings are on record for carrack in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French caraque (compare Spanish and Portuguese carraca, Italian caracca), from Latin carraca, from Latin carrus (“wagon”); or perhaps from Arabic قَرَاقِير (qarāqīr). The correct English form is carrack, spelled C-A-R-R-A-C-K.
Definition
- 1A large European sailing vessel of the 14th to 17th centuries similar to a caravel but square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast and lateen-rigged on the mizzenmast.
Etymology
From French caraque (compare Spanish and Portuguese carraca, Italian caracca), from Latin carraca, from Latin carrus (“wagon”); or perhaps from Arabic قَرَاقِير (qarāqīr).
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “carrack”
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- The one correct English spelling is C-A-R-R-A-C-K - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.