kartada

Borrowed from Philippine Spanish cartada, from carta (“playing card”) +‎ -ada. The sense “rating” alludes to card games such as Lucky 9, a card game similar to chemin de fer and baccarat, in which the winnability is determined by the values of the current cards at hand.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /kaɾˈtada/ [kɐɾˈt̪aː.d̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: kar‧ta‧da

kartada (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜇ᜔ᜆᜇ)

1. (card games) hand (set of cards held by a player in a card game)
2. win-loss record
3. (colloquial) figure, usually a numerical rating on a scale from one to nine or ten where bigger numbers indicate better quality

   kartada nuwebe ― rating of nine (literally, “a hand totaling nine”)

• Usually paired with a Spanish cardinals when used as a rating.