carte de visite
Letters
15 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
carte de visite is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petite carte sur laquelle on a écrit ou fait graver son nom et qu’on laisse à la porte des personnes qui se trouvent absentes lorsqu’on va pour leur rendre visite. Pronounced \kaʁt də vi.zit\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carte de visite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁt də vi.zit\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for carte de visite is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kaʁt də vi.zit\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for carte de visite in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French 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 French form is carte de visite, spelled C-A-R-T-E- -D-E- -V-I-S-I-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petite carte sur laquelle on a écrit ou fait graver son nom et qu’on laisse à la porte des personnes qui se trouvent absentes lorsqu’on va pour leur rendre visite.
- 2Petite carte portant le nom du détenteur et les différentes manières de le contacter; en général échangée par les personnes d’affaires lors de leur première rencontre.
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