carryout
"carryout" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“carryout” is uncommon English (frequency #90,261 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,261
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Food that is intended to be eaten outside the establishment from which it is bought.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carryout |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,261 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “carryout” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
carryout is uncommon English at frequency #90,261 among 43,570 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
carryout has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Deverbal from carry out. The correct English form is carryout, spelled C-A-R-R-Y-O-U-T.
Definition
- 1Food that is intended to be eaten outside the establishment from which it is bought.
- 2An establishment that prepares and sells food to be taken away on demand; a takeaway.
Etymology
Deverbal from carry out.
Synonyms
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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Using “carryout”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-A-R-R-Y-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.