card: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 7 letter points · starts with C · ends with D
Meaning of card
noun
- countable, uncountable
A playing card.
- countable, in-plural, uncountable
Any game using playing cards; a card game.
Example: He played cards with his friends.
- countable, uncountable
A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose. (See play the something card.)
Example: The government played the Orange card to get support for their Ireland policy.
- countable, uncountable
Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.
Listed forms: cards.
Source: Wiktionary — card.
verb
- US, transitive
To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
Example: They have to card anybody who looks 21 or younger.
- transitive
To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.
Example: McIlroy carded a stellar nine-under-par 61 in the final round.
- dated
To play cards.
Listed forms: cards, carding, carded.
Source: Wiktionary — card.
noun
- countable, uncountable
A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare these materials for spinning into yarn or thread on a spinning wheel, with a whorl or other hand-held spindle. The card serves to untangle, clean, remove debris from, and lay the fibers straight.
- countable, uncountable
A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
- dated, uncountable
Material with embedded short wire bristles.
- countable, dated, uncountable
A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
Listed forms: cards.
Source: Wiktionary — card.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for card.
noun
a card certifying the identity of the bearer
- identity card
noun
a witty amusing person who makes jokes
noun
a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement
noun
a printed or written greeting that is left to indicate that you have visited
- calling card
- visiting card
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is card in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of card
C(3) + A(1) + R(1) + D(2) = 7 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of card
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from card
7 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in card. Showing up to 24, longest first.