Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dance card

/ˈdæns ˌkɑɹd/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.68 in modern English

Syllables: dance -card
IPA: /ˈdæns ˌkɑɹd/

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An appointment schedule.

noun

A list of items.

noun

A card on which a person (usually a woman) lists those with whom they have agreed to dance.

Dated

Example Sentences

"My dance card is full this week. What about meeting next week?"
"I won't be leaving this room, Leo. And you're the only name on my dance card, sweetheart. Thanks for lunch."
"Next on her [Ellie Kendrick's] rapidly filling dance card is 'An Education', a Nick Hornby-scripted movie co-starring fellow rising star Carey Mulligan."
"It's going to be a ball when NASA's Dawn spacecraft finally arrives at the dwarf planet Ceres, and mission managers have now inked in the schedule on Dawn's dance card."
"As for not working on the "Sex and the City" reboot, she [Patricia Field] said, "The main reason was a time conflict. I wasn't able to be in New York doing that and be in Paris doing 'Emily in Paris.' […] My dance card was full.""
"[Quentin] Tarantino went on: "I never follow the normal dance card that the genre or the subgenres I deal in usually play by. […] I want it to become something bigger and more expansive than that given subgenre.""

Etymology

From dance + card (“flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, etc.; list of scheduled events, etc.”).

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈdæns ˌkɑɹd/
British English: /ˈdɑːns kɑːd/

Usage

Dated

Inflected Forms

dance cards (plural) dancecard (alternative) dance-card (alternative)

Homonyms

dance-card dancecard

Questions

How do you pronounce dance card?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈdæns ˌkɑɹd/.
What does dance card mean?: An appointment schedule.
Where does dance card come from?: From dance + card (“flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, etc.; list of scheduled events, etc.”).

How to pronounce dance card

Open the pronunciation page — Open the Speakur entry for “dance card”.
Read the phonetic spelling — Read the IPA spelling (/ˈdæns ˌkɑɹd/) so you know which sounds to aim for.
Play the audio — Click Play to hear reference audio for “dance card”.
Repeat and practice — Say “dance card” aloud, matching stress and vowels until it feels natural.