Carreer or career?
Did you mean career? Here's the right spelling and how to remember it.
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carreer
Correct
career
Correct spelling: career. Misspelling: carreer.
letters the misspelling gets wrong or leaves out letters that shouldn't be there
Memory tip
One R in the middle: car-eer.
Why people write “carreer”
The misspelling “carreer” is only one letter off: it doubles the R, which career spells with just one.
Spell-checkers catch the mistake in a document, but not in a handwritten note, a text message or a word game. Writing the word out a few times while saying the tricky part aloud is the quickest way to make career automatic.
Other misspellings of “career”
People also write “carrer”. Here is where each one goes wrong.
“carrer”
Correct spelling: career. Misspelling: carrer.
letters the misspelling gets wrong or leaves out letters that shouldn't be there
The misspelling “carrer” is only one letter off: it uses R in place of E.
What does “career” mean?
career noun
career verb
- move headlong at high speed
“The cars careered down the road”
Definitions from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Full dictionary entry
“Career” in a sentence
- She built a career in medicine.
- The general had had a distinguished career.
- The cars careered down the road.
Is “career” a playable word?
8 points in Scrabble · 9 in Words With Friends
- Scrabble (US)
- Scrabble (UK)
- Words With Friends
“carreer” is not accepted in any of these games. See every word you can make from CAREER.