timecard
noun
timecard is a noun meaning “A paper card that is timestamped by a time clock to record the times when an employee starts and stops work” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-I-M-E-C-A-R-D, and it appears about once in every 31 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of timecard is timecards.
What does timecard mean?
noun
- 1
A paper card that is timestamped by a time clock to record the times when an employee starts and stops work.
- 2
A digital record representing the same concept.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of timecard
- timecards plural
- time card
- time-card
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is timecard?
Timecard appears about once in every 31 million words in written English, the 169,822nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Timecard in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense card for tracking work hours:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | cartão de ponto |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does timecard come from?
From time + card. Piecewise doublet of time chart.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).