carte de crédit
\kaʁt də kʁe.di\
The verdict
“carte de crédit” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Carte en plastique comportant une bande magnétique ou une puce intégrée correspondant à une marge de crédit et servant à acheter des biens ou des services sur place ou à distance.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carte de crédit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁt də kʁe.di\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “carte de crédit” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
carte de crédit is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaʁt də kʁe.di\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Carte en plastique comportant une bande magnétique ou une puce intégrée correspondant à une marge de crédit et servant à acheter des biens ou des services sur place ou à distance.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for carte de crédit, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is carte de crédit, spelled C-A-R-T-E- -D-E- -C-R-É-D-I-T.
Definition
- 1Carte en plastique comportant une bande magnétique ou une puce intégrée correspondant à une marge de crédit et servant à acheter des biens ou des services sur place ou à distance.
This word in other languages
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Using “carte de crédit”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-R-T-E- -D-E- -C-R-É-D-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kaʁt də kʁe.di\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.