carroty

1. 1.

   resembling the bright orange of the root of the carrot plant

   “a boy with carroty hair”

Questions about carroty

What does carroty mean?

carroty means "resembling the bright orange of the root of the carrot plant".

How many syllables are in carroty?

carroty has 3 syllables and divides as car-ro-ty under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is carroty a common word?

carroty is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.