carte de visite
\kaʁt də vi.zit\
The verdict
“carte de visite” 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) - 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.
| 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) |
Where “carte de visite” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
carte de visite is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaʁt də vi.zit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for carte de visite, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is carte de visite, spelled C-A-R-T-E- -D-E- -V-I-S-I-T-E.
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.
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 visite”
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- -V-I-S-I-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kaʁt də vi.zit\ (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.