carte de guichet

/\kaʁ.tə də gi.ʃɛ\/ noun

The verdict

“carte de guichet” 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
16
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Carte en plastique comportant une bande magnétique ou une puce intégrée et servant à faire des transactions à un guichet automatique.

Key facts for carte de guichet
PropertyValue
Headwordcarte de guichet
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kaʁ.tə də gi.ʃɛ\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “carte de guichet” sits in French frequency

carte de guichet falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

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

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for carte de guichet is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kaʁ.tə də gi.ʃɛ\. 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 faire des transactions à un guichet automatique.".

No misspelling variants are generated for carte de guichet 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 guichet, spelled C-A-R-T-E- -D-E- -G-U-I-C-H-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Carte en plastique comportant une bande magnétique ou une puce intégrée et servant à faire des transactions à un guichet automatique.

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 "carte de guichet"?
"carte de guichet" is spelled C-A-R-T-E- -D-E- -G-U-I-C-H-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kaʁ.tə də gi.ʃɛ\.
What does "carte de guichet" mean?
As a noun, "carte de guichet" means: Carte en plastique comportant une bande magnétique ou une puce intégrée et servant à faire des transactions à un guichet automatique.
How do you pronounce "carte de guichet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "carte de guichet" is \kaʁ.tə də gi.ʃɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "carte de guichet" come from?
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Using “carte de guichet”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is C-A-R-T-E- -D-E- -G-U-I-C-H-E-T — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \kaʁ.tə də gi.ʃɛ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: 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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list