vis-à-vis
\vi.z‿a.vi\
The verdict
“vis-à-vis” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En face, à l’opposé, se faisant face.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vis-a-vis · vis-à-vis · French
vis-à-vis · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vis-à-vis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \vi.z‿a.vi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vis-à-vis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vis-à-vis is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \vi.z‿a.vi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "En face, à l’opposé, se faisant face.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for vis-à-vis, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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. The correct French form is vis-à-vis, spelled V-I-S---À---V-I-S.
Definition
- 1En face, à l’opposé, se faisant face.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vis-à-vis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorsque les deux adversaires se trouvèrent vis-à-vis l’un de l’autre aux deux extrémités de la lice, l’attention du public fut tendue au plus haut degré.
Doña Luz et le Cœur-Loyal étaient vis-à-vis l’un de l’autre dans une position singulière.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.