carrot
car·rot/ˈkæɹət/noun, verb
carrot is spelled C-A-R-R-O-T, 2 syllables: car·rot. The wrong spelling people search most is carrott: about 370 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 29 of all searches for the word. Carrot is a noun meaning “A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, family…”. The plural of carrot is carrots.
How many letters and syllables are in carrot?
| Letters | 6: C-A-R-R-O-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: car·rot |
| In writing | 4.2 times per million words; the 12,578th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, carrott, about 370 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| Same letters |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell carrot?
Carrot is spelled C-A-R-R-O-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 29 of the searches for carrot in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is carrot?
Carrot appears 4.2 times per million words in written English, the 12,578th 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 carrot?
- UK /ˈkæɹət/
- US /ˈkæɹət/
- /ˈkɛɹət/
Carrot has 2 syllables, split car·rot in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-ne-carrot.ogg, En-us-carrot.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with carrot
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: carat (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with carrot?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as carrot (/æɹət/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: trocar.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of carrot
- carrots plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- carroting participle, present
- carroted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does carrot mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, family Apiaceae, especially the subspecies sativus.
- 2
A shade of orange similar to the flesh of most carrots (also called carrot orange).
- 3
Any motivational tool; an incentive to do something.
- 4
UKderogatoryslangSomeone from a rural background.
- 5
UKslangA police officer from somewhere within the British Isles, but specifically outside of Greater London.
- 6
slangA redhead; a ginger-haired person
verb
- 1
To treat (an animal pelt) with a solution of mercuric nitrate as part of felt manufacture.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Carrot in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Daucus carota ssp. sativus:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | carotte |
| German | Karotte, Möhre, Mohrrübe, Rüebli, gelbe Rübe |
| Portuguese | cenoura |
| Spanish | zanahoria |
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 carrot come from?
Inherited from Middle English karette and Middle French carotte, both from Latin carōta, from Ancient Greek καρωτόν (karōtón). Doublet of carotte and related to caraway. Displaced native Middle English more, from Old English more, moru (“edible root, parsnip, carrot”), related to German Möhre (“carrot”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).