visage
French, noun/vi.zaʒ/
visage is spelled V-I-S-A-G-E (6 letters) and appears 74 times per million words in written French, the 1,141st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Visage is a French masculine noun meaning “face (of a human)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Face humaine ; partie antérieure de la tête, qui comprend le front, les yeux, le nez, les joues, la bouche…”.
What does visage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineface (of a human)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Face humaine ; partie antérieure de la tête, qui comprend le front, les yeux, le nez, les joues, la bouche, le menton et les oreilles. 2. Son air ; son expression. 3. Aspect d’une chose. 4. La personne même, en tant qu’on la connaît par le visage.
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 visage
- visages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce visage?
- /vi.zaʒ/
- \vi.zaʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to visage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is visage in French?
visage appears 74 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).