Wild card most commonly refers to:
Wild card (cards), a playing card that substitutes for any other card in card games Wild card (sports), a tournament or playoff place awarded to an individual or team that has not qualified through normal play
Wild card, wild cards or wildcard may also refer to:
Computing Matching wildcards or globbing, an algorithm for comparing text with wildcard characters Wildcard character, a character that substitutes for any other character or character range in regular expressions and globbing Wildcard DNS record, a record in a DNS zone file that will match all requests for non-existent domain names Wildcard mask, a netmask that swaps 1 to 0 and 0 to 1 compared to the normal netmask Wildcard certificate, a public key certificate used to secure multiple subdomains Wildcard (Java), a special actual type parameter for generic instantiations in the Java programming language Studio Wildcard, an American video game developer best known for Ark: Survival Evolved
Books Wild Cards, an anthology series of science fiction superhero books Wild Cards, the first installment of Wild Cards books and short stories Wildcard (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe Wildcard, the sequel to Warcross by Marie Lu Wildcard, two DC Comics characters in stories featuring the Royal Flush Gang Hector Hammond, the first Wildcard Amos Fortune (character), the second Wildcard
Film and television Wild Card (2003 film), a 2003 South Korean action film Wild Card (2015 film), an American crime drama film Wild Card (TV series), a.k.a. Zoe Busiek: Wild Card, a Canadian TV series starring Joely Fisher Wild Cards (TV series), a 2024 Canadian/American police procedural TV series "Wild Cards", an episode of Justice League "Wild Cards", an episode of The King of Queens
Music Wildcard, imprint of Polydor Records The Wild Card, a 2020 album by Ledisip Wild Card (ReVamp album), 2013 Wild Card (The Rippingtons album), 2005 Wild Card (The Warratahs album), 1990 Wildcard (Terence Trent D'Arby album), 2001 Wildcard (Miranda Lambert album), 2019 Wildcard, an album by Ridley Bent 2014 Wildcard (EP), a 1989 EP by Pennywise Wildcard / A Word from the Wise, compilation album by Pennywise "Wildcard", song by Kshmr "Wild Card", a 2014 song by Hunter Hayes from Storyline
Other uses Wild Card (lottery), a lottery game played in Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota Wild card (foresight), low-probability, high-impact events Wild card (linguistics), broad letters or symbols used to cover classes of sounds Wild Card, the antagonist of NFL Rush Zone season 2 Wild Card (video game), a 2001 role-playing video game Wild Card Football, a 2023 arcade-style football video game by Saber Interactive
See also Wild Cardz, a manga series and anime Wild Card Series, previously Wild Card Games, used in the Major League Baseball postseason since 2012 Wyldcard, American musician