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cart

/kɑɹt/noun, verb

cart is spelled C-A-R-T: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 9.5 times per million words in written English, the 7,338th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cart means “A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, often with two wheels on one axle, more often used for transporting goods than…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of cart is carts.

How many letters and syllables are in cart?

Letters4: C-A-R-T
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing9.5 times per million words; the 7,338th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is cart?

Cart appears 9.5 times per million words in written English, the 7,338th 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 cart?

  • UK /kɑːt/
  • US /kɑɹt/

Cart has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-cart.ogg, En-us-inlandnorth-cart.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with cart?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as cart from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɹt/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: crat.

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 cart

  • carts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • carting participle, present
  • carted participle, past

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

What does cart mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, often with two wheels on one axle, more often used for transporting goods than passengers.

    The grocer delivered his goods by cart.

  2. 2

    A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart.

  3. 3

    A shopping cart.

  4. 4

    informalA tape cartridge used for pre-recorded material such as jingles and advertisements.

  5. 5

    informalA cartridge for a computer or video game system.

    My Final Fantasy cart on the NES is still alive and kicking.

  6. 6

    informalslangA cartridge containing cannabis oil or another drug for use in vape pens; a detachable clearomizer, usually threaded and prefilled.

    Whoah! Where did you get a DMT cart?

verb

  1. 1

    To carry or convey in a cart.

  2. 2

    informalTo carry goods.

    I've been carting these things around all day.

  3. 3

    To remove, especially involuntarily or for disposal.

  4. 4

    obsoleteTo expose in a cart by way of punishment.

noun

as CART
  1. 1

    Acronym of classification and regression tree.

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

Cart in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchchariot, charrette (small, open, wheeled vehicle – see also wagon)
GermanWagen, Karre, Karren (small, open, wheeled vehicle – see also wagon), Kart (small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go cart), befördern, karren (To carry goods)
Portuguesecarroça, carreta (small, open, wheeled vehicle – see also wagon), kart (small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go cart)
Spanishcarro, carreta, catanga (small, open, wheeled vehicle – see also wagon)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does cart come from?

From Middle English cart, kart, from Old Norse kartr (“wagon; cart”), merged with native Old English cræt (“a chariot; cart”), from Proto-Germanic *krattaz, *krattijô, *kradō, from Proto-Indo-European *gret- (“tracery; wattle; cradle; cage; basket”), from *ger- (“to turn, wind”).

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

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