keycard
"keycard" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“keycard” is uncommon English (frequency #99,447 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,447
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A usually plastic card which stores a digital signature that is used to operate an electronic access control lock.
Corpus desk
Index EN-keycard · keycard · English
keycard · rank #99,447 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,447
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH Khalistan
Nearest frequency peer: Khalistan (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “keycard”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Kazim
Kazim
560 corpus weight
- ketoconazole
ketoconazole
556 corpus weight
- keycard
keycard
554 corpus weight
- Khalistan
Khalistan
553 corpus weight
- khana
khana
552 corpus weight
- Killam
Killam
551 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “keycard” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | keycard |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #99,447 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “keycard” in English
Rare enough to double-check
keycard is uncommon English at frequency #99,447 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A usually plastic card which stores a digital signature that is used to operate an electronic access control lock.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for keycard, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From key (“lock opener”) + card (“piece of plastic”). The correct English form is keycard, spelled K-E-Y-C-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1A usually plastic card which stores a digital signature that is used to operate an electronic access control lock.
Etymology
From key (“lock opener”) + card (“piece of plastic”).
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).