carry
/ˈkæɹ.ɪ/
"carry" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“carry” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #1,360. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,360
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
Corpus desk
Index EN-carry · carry · English
carry · rank #1,360 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,360
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH captain
Nearest frequency peer: captain (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “carry”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- associated
associated
98,644 corpus weight
- basic
basic
98,643 corpus weight
- captain
captain
98,642 corpus weight
- carry
carry
98,641 corpus weight
- cars
cars
98,640 corpus weight
- crime
crime
98,639 corpus weight
What this shows “carry” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carry |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈkæɹ.ɪ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,360 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “carry”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around carry (IPA /ˈkæɹ.ɪ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,360 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 30 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for carry, with forms such as "acrry", "carryy", and "caryr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cry", "cay", "cars", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English carien, from Anglo-Norman carier (modern French charrier); from a derivative of Latin carrus (“four-wheeled baggage wagon”), ultimately of Gaulish origin. The correct English form is carry, spelled C-A-R-R-Y.
Definition
- 1To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
- 2To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
- 3To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
- 4To move; to convey using force
- 5To lead or guide.
- 6To stock or supply (something); to have in store.
- 7To adopt (something); take (something) over.
- 8To adopt or resolve on, especially in a deliberative assembly
- 9In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the units in a column to the column immediately to the left in order to be added there.
- 10To have, hold, possess or maintain (something).
- 11To be transmitted; to travel.
- 12To insult, to diss.
- 13To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
- 14To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
- 15For the ball, having been hit in the air, to reach a fielder without touching the ground (whether or not the fielder catches it).
- 16To have on one’s person.
- 17To be pregnant (with).
- 18To have propulsive power; to propel.
- 19To hold the head; said of a horse.
- 20To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
- 21To bear or uphold successfully, especially through conflict, for example a leader or principle
- 22To succeed in (e.g. a contest); to succeed in; to win.
- 23To get possession of by force; to capture.
- 24To contain; to comprise; have a particular aspect; to show or exhibit
- 25To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
- 26To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
- 27To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed.
- 28(transitive or, rarely, intransitive) To be disproportionately responsible for a team's success or for counteracting teammates' underperformance.
- 29To physically transport (in the general sense, not necessarily by lifting)
- 30To bear a firearm, such as a gun.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how carry appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"By means of the Golden Cap I shall command the Winged Monkeys to carry you to the gates of the Emerald City," said Glinda, "for it would be a shame to deprive the people of so wonderful a ruler."
Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
Etymology
From Middle English carien, from Anglo-Norman carier (modern French charrier); from a derivative of Latin carrus (“four-wheeled baggage wagon”), ultimately of Gaulish origin.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrry
- carryy
- caryr
- ccarry
- crary
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of carry - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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