visiting card

noun

"visiting-card" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“visiting card” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
13
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A written card which identifies the bearer, presented for introduction when attending a business meeting or formal social gathering.

Corpus desk

Index EN-visiting-card · visiting card · English

visiting card · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "V" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for visiting card
PropertyValue
Headwordvisiting card
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “visiting card” in English

visiting cardranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

visiting card is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A written card which identifies the bearer, presented for introduction when attending a business meeting or formal social gathering.".

No misspelling variants are generated for visiting card in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is visiting card, spelled V-I-S-I-T-I-N-G- -C-A-R-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    A written card which identifies the bearer, presented for introduction when attending a business meeting or formal social gathering.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how visiting card appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. On the 19th of May we are a maiden castle no longer. Black coats and hats ring at the bell, and pass in and out of the different apartments. The hall table is sprinkled with letters, visiting-cards, and programmes which seem to have had the alphabet shaken out upon them, for they bear the names of professors, doctors, reverends, and very reverends, and fa…

Synonyms

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "visiting card"?
"visiting card" is spelled V-I-S-I-T-I-N-G- -C-A-R-D.
What does "visiting card" mean?
As a noun, "visiting card" means: A written card which identifies the bearer, presented for introduction when attending a business meeting or formal social gathering.
What language does "visiting card" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list