visa
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,770
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
visa is aFrenchnoun. It means: Attestation qu’un acte a été examiné, qui rend cet acte valable. Pronounced \vi.za\. It ranks #6,770 in French word frequency. Often confused with vs and vos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | visa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vi.za\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #6,770 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for visa is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vi.za\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,770 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for visa, with forms such as "ivsa", "vissa", and "vsia". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vs", "vos", "vit", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is visa, spelled V-I-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Attestation qu’un acte a été examiné, qui rend cet acte valable.
- 2Attestation qu’un acte a été examiné, qui rend cet acte valable.
- 3Cachet apposé sur un passeport.
- 4Acte par lequel un évêque conférait un bénéfice à charge d’âmes à celui qui lui était présenté par le patron du bénéfice.
- 5Mission 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.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ivsa,vissa,vsia,vvisa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for visa
Misspelling Variants of "visa"
Frequency rank: #6,770 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter V in our French index: