Which to use
“cara” is a preposition and “carry” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #195
- “cara” frequency rank
- #25,925
- “carry” frequency rank
- 26120
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | cara | carry |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | em direção a, para, contra | levar, transportar, carregar |
Letter map: cara vs carry
Shared letters muted; letters that set cara and carry apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. cara runs 4 letters (CVCV) against carry's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Part-of-speech tell for cara / carry
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: cara is apreposition and carryaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26120, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
cara is recorded at frequency rank #195, classified as aprep. carry is at rank #25,925, tagged as averb.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 26120, this pair ranks #43,081 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of cara vs carry
Shared letters: acr. Private to "cara": -. Private to "carry": y.
"cara" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "carry" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "cara" and "carry" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "cara" or "carry" show up more?
What to do next
Pair "cara" vs "carry" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.
- Full dictionary entry for "cara" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "carry" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #43,081 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "cara" and "carry" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cárie vs carry". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #43,081 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.