yellow-card
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "yellow-card", 11-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "yellow-card" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "yellow-card" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
yellow card is aEnglishnoun. It means: a yellow-coloured card, shown to a player (especially in association football) as a caution that he or she has committed a flagrant foul; a further such foul would result in a red card. Pronounced /ˈjɛl.əʊ ˌkɑːd/.
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Browse all word comparisons →| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yellow card |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈjɛl.əʊ ˌkɑːd/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The English entry for yellow card is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈjɛl.əʊ ˌkɑːd/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for yellow card in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable English patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is yellow card, spelled Y-E-L-L-O-W- -C-A-R-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1a yellow-coloured card, shown to a player (especially in association football) as a caution that he or she has committed a flagrant foul; a further such foul would result in a red card.
- 2one of various yellow-colored cards used to verify the healthiness, vaccination status or other medical info of travelers.
- 3a form to record safety concerns and adverse reactions to medicinal drugs.
- 4A card sent out by a travelling dance or theatre company to request temporary personnel from a local labor union.
- 5A yellow ticket.
- 6a card given to British Army personnel during The Troubles.
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