carrier

/\ka.ʁje\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#23,130

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

carrier is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celui qui exploite une carrière ou qui travaille dans une carrière. Pronounced \ka.ʁje\. Often confused with crier and carter.

Key facts for carrier
PropertyValue
Headwordcarrier
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.ʁje\
Letters7
Frequency rank#23,130
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of carrier in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for carrier is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.ʁje\. Corpus data places it at rank #23,130 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Celui qui exploite une carrière ou qui travaille dans une carrière.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for carrier, with forms such as "acrrier", "carier", and "carirer". 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, "crier", "carter", "casier", 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 French form is carrier, spelled C-A-R-R-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Celui qui exploite une carrière ou qui travaille dans une carrière.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: acrrier,carier,carirer,carreir,carrierr,carrire,ccarrier,crarier

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for carrier

Misspelling Variants of "carrier"

acrrier7carier6carirer7carreir7carrierr8carrire7ccarrier8crarier7
Misspelling Variants of "carrier"

Frequency rank: #23,130 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "carrier"?
"carrier" is spelled C-A-R-R-I-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.ʁje\.
What does "carrier" mean?
As a noun, "carrier" means: Celui qui exploite une carrière ou qui travaille dans une carrière.
What words are commonly confused with "carrier"?
"carrier" is commonly confused with "crier", "carter", "casier". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "carrier"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "carrier" is \ka.ʁje\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "carrier" come from?
"carrier" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.