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How would you spell Cara?

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Jan2026x · 06/06/2025 06:53

Would you spell it with out without an accent?

Cárá
Cára
Cara
Cará

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MyDelma · 08/06/2025 02:10

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Lastmoon · 08/06/2025 02:06

Denimrules · 08/06/2025 01:24

Basing the K on a friend of many years who is Irish origins Kiwi

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Okay…but there’s still no k in the Irish alphabet 😁
She uses an anglicised spelling of an Irish word I guess?
Italian pronunciation.

Sorry, that all sounds very critical and I don’t mean it to be, just being matter of fact.

I actually think Karagh’s a very nice name, but it doesn’t have an authentic Irish spelling or pronunciation even if the person using it has Irish heritage.

uncomfortablydumb60 · 08/06/2025 02:03

Cara No accent Lovely name

Denimrules · 08/06/2025 01:25

Butdidyou · 08/06/2025 00:32

Please don't add a "gh" to the end of a name just so it looks more Irish. It's really annoying for anyone who doesn't live in Ireland to have to explain it all the time. Coming from experience.

It's just Cara.

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Basing this on friend of many years who is Irish origins Kiwi

Denimrules · 08/06/2025 01:24

Lastmoon · 08/06/2025 01:17

Adding agh just makes it look ‘fake Irish’ to me.
Also, there’s no letter k in the Irish alphabet.

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Basing the K on a friend of many years who is Irish origins Kiwi

Lastmoon · 08/06/2025 01:17

Denimrules · 08/06/2025 00:01

Karagh/Caragh Irish vibe. Otherwise Cara

Adding agh just makes it look ‘fake Irish’ to me.
Also, there’s no letter k in the Irish alphabet.

Butdidyou · 08/06/2025 00:32

Denimrules · 08/06/2025 00:01

Karagh/Caragh Irish vibe. Otherwise Cara

Please don't add a "gh" to the end of a name just so it looks more Irish. It's really annoying for anyone who doesn't live in Ireland to have to explain it all the time. Coming from experience.

It's just Cara.

Denimrules · 08/06/2025 00:01

Karagh/Caragh Irish vibe. Otherwise Cara

theunbreakablecleopatrajones · 07/06/2025 23:56

Marmite27 · 06/06/2025 06:57

I’d spell it Kara.

Is your surname Kardashian?

IfIDid · 06/06/2025 13:24

Lastmoon · 06/06/2025 11:47

No, that’s what I’m saying. The pronunciation is Italian, not Irish.

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Yes, exactly. Leading to the (to me) amusing ability to start a letter in Irish to a woman named Cara with ‘A Chara, a chara’.

OP, you’re clearly very confused about what an accent does. As everyone else has said, none needed here.

Bippityboppityboo67 · 06/06/2025 13:19

@lastmoon my apologies I misunderstood

DramaAlpaca · 06/06/2025 12:27

What they all said above. It's just Cara, no accent of any kind required.

Lastmoon · 06/06/2025 11:47

Bippityboppityboo67 · 06/06/2025 11:34

@lastmoon my name is actually Cara and I've never had it pronounced Corra

No, that’s what I’m saying. The pronunciation is Italian, not Irish.

BethDuttonYeHaw · 06/06/2025 11:41

Just Cara. No accent.

PizzaSophiaLoren · 06/06/2025 11:38

Have you considered Kahrah an alternative?
or perhaps Caaawrah?

Bippityboppityboo67 · 06/06/2025 11:34

@lastmoon my name is actually Cara and I've never had it pronounced Corra

eggandonion · 06/06/2025 10:47

My late brother went to school with a Caragh. They would be 70 by now! In Ireland.

user1492757084 · 06/06/2025 10:43

Cara

Lastmoon · 06/06/2025 10:40

Bippityboppityboo67 · 06/06/2025 06:59

If you are spelling it as an Irish name Cara meaning friend it does not have an accent or in Irish a fàda. So definitely no accent

The word fada doesn’t have an accent either and if it did it would be the other way round 😉

I always think of Cara as an Italian name because of the pronunciation. The word cara does mean friend in Irish but it’s pronounced corra and the name isn’t said like that. But others do see it as both Italian and Irish 🤷‍♀️

Choppedcoriander · 06/06/2025 07:19

Cara is both an Italian and an Irish name. It has no accents in either. You can’t just randomly pepper a word with accents. They have a specific purpose.

PlayDoh135 · 06/06/2025 07:15

Cara.

But why are you thinking of arbitrarily adding accents that have no place there and make no sense?

MiddleClassProblem · 06/06/2025 07:00

You do understand that accents have a purpose and you don’t just slap them where ever you like?

Bippityboppityboo67 · 06/06/2025 06:59

If you are spelling it as an Irish name Cara meaning friend it does not have an accent or in Irish a fàda. So definitely no accent

Marmite27 · 06/06/2025 06:57

I’d spell it Kara.

Sherararara · 06/06/2025 06:57

Well as you’ve written Cara I’d spell it Cara.
You need to tell us how it’s supposed to sound. That’s how this works.

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