carey
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#31,690
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
carey is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Eretmochelys imbricata) Gran tortuga marina que habita arrecifes coralinos en las aguas tropicales de todo el globo. Alcanza los 80 kg de peso y más de un metro de largo, con un distintivo caparaz... Pronounced [kaˈɾej]. Often confused with cry and creo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carey |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈɾej] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #31,690 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for carey is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈɾej]. Corpus data places it at rank #31,690 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for carey, with forms such as "acrey", "caery", and "careyy". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cry", "creo", "cree", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is carey, spelled C-A-R-E-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Eretmochelys imbricata) Gran tortuga marina que habita arrecifes coralinos en las aguas tropicales de todo el globo. Alcanza los 80 kg de peso y más de un metro de largo, con un distintivo caparazón cordiforme y un patrón de color amarillo orlando los escudos del espaldar. Tiene la cabeza elongada, con morro en forma de pico y las patas palmeadas con dos garras por pie. Capturada por sus huevos y su caparazón, está en grave riesgo de extinción.
- 2Material córneo, obtenido de las placas del caparazón de esta tortuga, y apreciado para la fabricación de objetos de decoración.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acrey,caery,careyy,carrey,carye,ccarey,craey
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "carey"
Frequency rank: #31,690 in Spanish
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