Visayan
/viˈsaɪən/adjective, noun
Visayan is an adjective meaning “Of or relating to the Visayans or the Visayas” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-S-A-Y-A-N, and it appears about once in every 23 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does Visayan mean?
adjective
- 1
Of or relating to the Visayans or the Visayas.
noun
- 1
A native or descendant of the Visayan people of the Philippines.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce Visayan?
- /viˈsaɪən/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Visayan.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of Visayan
- Bisaya
- Bisayan
- Visayans plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Visayan?
Visayan appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th 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).
Visayan in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense person or nation:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | Visayen |
| Spanish | bisayo |
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.