ecarte

1. 1.

   a card game for 2 players; played with 32 cards and king high

   Broadercard game

Other forms of ecarte

plural

ecartes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ecarte

What does ecarte mean?

ecarte means "a card game for 2 players; played with 32 cards and king high".

How many syllables are in ecarte?

ecarte has 2 syllables: e-carte. The stress falls on "e".

Is ecarte a common word?

ecarte is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.