visages

\vi.zaʒ\

/\vi.zaʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“visages” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,147. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,147
frequency rank, French
2,061
“V” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
16
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de visage.

Corpus desk

Index FR-visages · visages · French

visages · rank #6,147 · 10 variants · 16 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,147
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,061
  • PHOTO-FINISH verbe

Nearest frequency peer: verbe (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « visages »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « visages » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

visages vs visés
57% similar
visages vs visas
71% similar
visages vs Vosges
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for visages
PropertyValue
Headwordvisages
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vi.zaʒ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#6,147
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « visages »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).visagesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « verbe » (#6,146), « visibilité » (#6,148), « Vancouver » (#6,145). Parmi 2,061 lemmes en « V », « visages » est au #6,147. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around visages (IPA \vi.zaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,147 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de visage.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for visages, with forms such as "ivsages", "viasges", and "visaegs". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "visés", "visas", "Vosges", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is visages, spelled V-I-S-A-G-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de visage.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how visages appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les visages se peignirent de lassitude.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ivsages
  • viasges
  • visaegs
  • visagess
  • visagges
  • visagse
  • visgaes
  • vissages
  • vsiages
  • vvisages

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of visages - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ivsages2viasges2visaegs2visagess1visagges1visagse2visgaes2vissages1
Edit distance from "visages"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "visages"?
"visages" is spelled V-I-S-A-G-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \vi.zaʒ\.
What does "visages" mean?
As a noun, "visages" means: Pluriel de visage.
What words are commonly confused with "visages"?
"visages" is commonly confused with "visés", "visas", "Vosges". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "visages"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "visages" is \vi.zaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "visages" come from?
"visages" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "visages", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

servant#6,137saurait#6,136amusant#6,163calculs#6,168

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

affiches10 variantsaimerait10 variantsarrivant10 variantsdeviens10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list