visa
/ˈviː.zə/noun, verb
visa is spelled V-I-S-A: 4 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,778th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, visa means “A permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country to be visited” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of visa is visas.
How many letters and syllables are in visa?
| Letters | 4: V-I-S-A |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 13 times per million words; the 5,778th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is visa?
Visa appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,778th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce visa?
- US /ˈviː.zə/
Visa has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-visa.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with visa?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as visa from its last stressed vowel (/izə/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of visa
- visas plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- visaing participle, present
- visaed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does visa mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country to be visited.
I came on a six-month tourist visa.
noun
- 1
A credit card issued by the credit card company Visa.
- 2
A credit card.
noun
- 1
Initialism of vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus.
verb
- 1
datedTo endorse (a passport, etc.).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Visa in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense permit to enter a country:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does visa come from?
From 1831, "official signature or endorsement on a passport," from French visa, from Latin charta vīsa (“paper that has been seen”) from feminine perfect passive of Latin vidēre (“to see”). Compare vision, video, vista.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).