visa

\vi.za\

/\vi.za\/ noun

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The verdict

“visa” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,770) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#6,770
frequency rank, French
2,061
“V” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Attestation qu’un acte a été examiné, qui rend cet acte valable.

Corpus desk

Index FR-visa · visa · French

visa · rank #6,770 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,770
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,061
  • PHOTO-FINISH victoria

Nearest frequency peer: victoria (-1 rank slots)

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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « visa »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « visa » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

visa vs vs
50% similar
visa vs vos
50% similar
visa vs vit
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for visa
PropertyValue
Headwordvisa
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vi.za\
Letters4
Frequency rank#6,770
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « visa »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).visase place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « victoria » (#6,769), « vraisemblablement » (#6,771), « valent » (#6,768). Parmi 2,061 lemmes en « V », « visa » est au #6,770. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for visa is neighbouring look-alikes ("vs", "vos", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \vi.za\. Frequency #6,770 among 2,061 “V” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for visa, with forms such as "ivsa", "vissa", and "vsia". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vs", "vos", "vit", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is visa, spelled V-I-S-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Attestation qu’un acte a été examiné, qui rend cet acte valable.
  2. 2
    Attestation qu’un acte a été examiné, qui rend cet acte valable.
  3. 3
    Cachet apposé sur un passeport.
  4. 4
    Acte par lequel un évêque conférait un bénéfice à charge d’âmes à celui qui lui était présenté par le patron du bénéfice.
  5. 5
    Mission de contrôle de la conformité des études d’exécution par rapport aux études de projet (PRO), selon la loi MOP puis le code de la commande publique.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how visa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Je me vis donc forcé d'aller trouver M. Pilat, le directeur de cette institution [la censure], en lui exposant qu'on me faisait attendre trop longtemps le visa.
  2. Ces textes sont établis de la même manière que les arrêtés ministériels. Ils comprennent des visas, quelquefois des considérants et des avis des conseils administratifs, en bas à gauche, l’indication des ampliataires ; enfin, un dispositif divisé en articles.

This word in other languages

visa(English)visa(Español)Visum(Deutsch)visto(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ivsa
  • vissa
  • vsia
  • vvisa

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of visa - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ivsa2vissa1vsia2vvisa1
Edit distance from "visa"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "visa"?
"visa" is spelled V-I-S-A. The IPA pronunciation is \vi.za\.
What does "visa" mean?
As a noun, "visa" means: Attestation qu’un acte a été examiné, qui rend cet acte valable.
What words are commonly confused with "visa"?
"visa" is commonly confused with "vs", "vos", "vit". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "visa"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "visa" is \vi.za\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "visa" come from?
"visa" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "visa", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

alan#6,778Andy#6,780chic#6,795noix#6,719

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list