carrying
car·ry·ing/ˈkæɹi.ɪŋ/noun, verb
carrying is spelled C-A-R-R-Y-I-N-G, 3 syllables: car·ry·ing. The wrong spelling people search most is carryng: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 62 of all searches for the word. Carrying is a noun meaning “Transportation”. The plural of carrying is carryings.
How many letters and syllables are in carrying?
| Letters | 8: C-A-R-R-Y-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: car·ry·ing |
| In writing | 41 times per million words; the 2,438th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, carryng, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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 carrying?
Carrying is spelled C-A-R-R-Y-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 62 of the searches for carrying 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 carrying?
Carrying appears 41 times per million words in written English, the 2,438th 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 carrying?
- UK /ˈkæɹi.ɪŋ/
- British /ˈkaɹɪj.ɪŋ/
- /ˈkæɹi.ɪŋ/
Carrying has 3 syllables, split car·ry·ing in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-carrying.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with carrying?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as carrying from its last stressed vowel (/æɹiɪŋ/, British pronunciation):
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 carrying
- carryings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does carrying mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Transportation.
carryings away of goods
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of carry
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).