visit

/[vɪzɪt]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#31,352

in German word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

10

similar word pairs

visit is aGermannoun. It means: vorübergehendes Aufsuchen des Aufenthaltsorts einer Person, eines Gebäudes oder einer Institution; Besuch Pronounced [vɪzɪt]. Often confused with Visum and vista.

Key facts for visit
PropertyValue
Headwordvisit
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[vɪzɪt]
Letters5
Frequency rank#31,352
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of visit in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for visit is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [vɪzɪt]. Corpus data places it at rank #31,352 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "vorübergehendes Aufsuchen des Aufenthaltsorts einer Person, eines Gebäudes oder einer Institution; Besuch".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for visit, with forms such as "ivsit", "viist", and "visitt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Visum", "vista", "Visite", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is visit, spelled V-I-S-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    vorübergehendes Aufsuchen des Aufenthaltsorts einer Person, eines Gebäudes oder einer Institution; Besuch

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ivsit,viist,visitt,vissit,visti,vsiit,vvisit

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for visit

Misspelling Variants of "visit"

ivsit5viist5visitt6vissit6visti5vsiit5vvisit6
Misspelling Variants of "visit"

Frequency rank: #31,352 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "visit"?
"visit" is spelled V-I-S-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is [vɪzɪt].
What does "visit" mean?
As a noun, "visit" means: vorübergehendes Aufsuchen des Aufenthaltsorts einer Person, eines Gebäudes oder einer Institution; Besuch
What words are commonly confused with "visit"?
"visit" is commonly confused with "Visum", "vista", "Visite". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "visit"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "visit" is [vɪzɪt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "visit" come from?
"visit" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Other entries that begin with the letter V in our German index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.