visa

/\vi.za\/ noun

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.

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)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of visa in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  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.

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"

ivsa4vissa5vsia4vvisa5
Misspelling Variants of "visa"

Frequency rank: #6,770 in French

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. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.