viss
/vɪs/noun
viss is a noun meaning “A Burmese unit of measure for weight, approximately 1.63293 kilograms (3.6 pounds)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-S-S, and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of viss is visses.
What does viss mean?
noun
- 1
A Burmese unit of measure for weight, approximately 1.63293 kilograms (3.6 pounds).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce viss?
- /vɪs/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-viss.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of viss
- visses plural
- vis
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is viss?
Viss appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 180,281st 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 viss come from?
Borrowed from Tamil வீசை (vīcai) and/or Telugu వీసె (vīse).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).