carte de débit
The verdict
“carte de débit” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Carte en plastique comportant une bande magnétique ou une puce intégrée et servant à débiter directement d'un compte courant le prix d'un bien ou d'un service au moment de l'achat.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carte de débit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁt də de.bi\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “carte de débit” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for carte de débit is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kaʁt də de.bi\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Carte en plastique comportant une bande magnétique ou une puce intégrée et servant à débiter directement d'un compte courant le prix d'un bien ou d'un service au moment de l'achat.".
No misspelling variants are generated for carte de débit in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 French form is carte de débit, spelled C-A-R-T-E- -D-E- -D-É-B-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Carte en plastique comportant une bande magnétique ou une puce intégrée et servant à débiter directement d'un compte courant le prix d'un bien ou d'un service au moment de l'achat.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “carte de débit”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-R-T-E- -D-E- -D-É-B-I-T — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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