carrying out
"carrying-out" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“carrying out” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - present participle and gerund of carry out
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carrying out |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “carrying out” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
carrying out is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of carry out".
carrying out has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is carrying out, spelled C-A-R-R-Y-I-N-G- -O-U-T.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of carry out
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “carrying out”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-A-R-R-Y-I-N-G- -O-U-T - 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.