visa
French, noun/vi.za/
visa is spelled V-I-S-A (4 letters) and appears 10 times per million words in written French, the 6,701st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Visa is a French masculine noun meaning “a mark or stamp attesting to the performance of an official action” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular past historic of viser. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Attestation qu’un acte a été examiné, qui rend cet acte valable”.
What does visa mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea mark or stamp attesting to the performance of an official action
- 2
masculinea travel visa
verb
- 1
third-person singular past historic of viser
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Attestation qu’un acte a été examiné, qui rend cet acte valable. 2. Par extension 3. Cachet apposé sur un passeport. 4. Acte par lequel un évêque conférait un bénéfice à charge d’âmes à celui qui lui était présenté par le patron du bénéfice.
noun: 1. 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.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of visa
- visas plural
- VISA
- visa
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce visa?
- /vi.za/
- \vi.za\
- [vi.za]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to visa
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is visa in French?
visa appears 10 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).