visage
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,152
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
visage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Face humaine ; partie antérieure de la tête, qui comprend le front, les yeux, le nez, les joues, la bouche, le menton et les oreilles. Pronounced \vi.zaʒ\. It ranks #1,152 in French word frequency. Often confused with visé and visée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | visage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vi.zaʒ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,152 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for visage is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vi.zaʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,152 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 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for visage, with forms such as "ivsage", "viasge", and "visaeg". 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, "visé", "visée", "visas", 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 visage, spelled V-I-S-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Face humaine ; partie antérieure de la tête, qui comprend le front, les yeux, le nez, les joues, la bouche, le menton et les oreilles.
- 2Son air ; son expression.
- 3Aspect d’une chose.
- 4La personne même, en tant qu’on la connaît par le visage.
- 5Ensemble des traits moraux caractéristiques d’une personne, d’une nation, etc.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ivsage,viasge,visaeg,visagge,visgae,vissage,vsiage,vvisage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for visage
Misspelling Variants of "visage"
Frequency rank: #1,152 in French
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