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carried

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Detailed reference entry for the English word "carried", 7-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Wiktionary, and usage frequency ranked against an open word-frequency list covering the top 100,000 English words. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "carried" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "carried" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.

carried is aEnglishverb. It means: simple past and past participle of carry Pronounced /ˈkæɹ.ɪd/. It ranks #1,747 in English word frequency. Often confused with cried and carved.

Key facts for carried
PropertyValue
Headwordcarried
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
IPA/ˈkæɹ.ɪd/
Letters7
Frequency rank#1,747
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of carried in English word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for carried is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkæɹ.ɪd/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,747 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "simple past and past participle of carry".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for carried, with forms such as "acrried", "caried", and "carired". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "cried", "carved", "currie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is carried, spelled C-A-R-R-I-E-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of carry

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: acrried,caried,carired,carreid,carride,carriedd,ccarried,craried

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for carried

Misspelling Variants of "carried"

acrried7caried6carired7carreid7carride7carriedd8ccarried8craried7
Misspelling Variants of "carried"

Frequency rank: #1,747 in English

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "carried"?
"carried" is spelled C-A-R-R-I-E-D. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈkæɹ.ɪd/.
What does "carried" mean?
As a verb, "carried" means: simple past and past participle of carry
What words are commonly confused with "carried"?
"carried" is commonly confused with "cried", "carved", "currie". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "carried"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "carried" is /ˈkæɹ.ɪd/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "carried" come from?
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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.