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carryon

adjective, noun

carryon is spelled C-A-R-R-Y-O-N: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, carryon means “Alternative spelling of carry-on” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in carryon?

Letters7: C-A-R-R-Y-O-N
In writingabout once in every 19 million words; the 131,834th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is carryon?

Carryon appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th 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).

Forms of carryon

  • carryons plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does carryon mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of carry-on.

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of carry-on.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does carryon come from?

Deverbal from carry on.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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