vison
/ˈvaɪsən/noun
vison is a noun meaning “An American mink (Neogale vison)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-S-O-N, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vison is visons.
What does vison mean?
noun
- 1
An American mink (Neogale vison).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce vison?
- /ˈvaɪsən/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-vison.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of vison
- visons plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vison?
Vison appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th 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).
Where does vison come from?
Borrowed from French vison (“mink”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).