visière

\vi.zjɛʁ\

/\vi.zjɛʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“visière” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,123. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#37,123
frequency rank, French
2,061
“V” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
11
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pièce du casque qui se haussait et qui se baissait, et au travers de laquelle l’homme d’armes voyait et respirait.

Corpus desk

Index FR-visiere · visière · French

visière · rank #37,123 · 10 variants · 11 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #37,123
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,061
  • PHOTO-FINISH vile

Nearest frequency peer: vile (-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 « visière »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « visière » 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).

visière vs visite
71% similar
visière vs vivier
57% similar
visière vs visser
57% similar

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

Key facts for visière
PropertyValue
Headwordvisière
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vi.zjɛʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#37,123
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « visière »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.visièrese 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 « vile » (#37,122), « Vittorio » (#37,124), « vengé » (#37,121). Parmi 2,061 lemmes en « V », « visière » est au #37,123. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around visière (IPA \vi.zjɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,123 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for visière, with forms such as "ivsière", "viisère", and "visiere". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "visite", "vivier", "visser", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is visière, spelled V-I-S-I-È-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pièce du casque qui se haussait et qui se baissait, et au travers de laquelle l’homme d’armes voyait et respirait.
  2. 2
    Pièce de cuir, de coton, de toile, etc., formant la partie antérieure d’une casquette, d’un képi, etc., et destinée à abriter le front et les yeux.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. La visière de son casque était levée pour faciliter sa respiration, mais la mentonnière en était fermée ; […].
  2. […] il regarda quelque temps, et sans le reconnaître à visage découvert, celui que, dans un autre temps, il eût nommé, visière baissée, au milieu de toute la cour de l’empereur.

This word in other languages

visor(English)visera(Español)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ivsière
  • viisère
  • visiere
  • visirèe
  • visièer
  • visièrre
  • vissière
  • visèire
  • vsiière
  • vvisière

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

ivsière2viisère2visiere1visirèe2visièer2visièrre1vissière1visèire2
Edit distance from "visière"

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 "visière"?
"visière" is spelled V-I-S-I-È-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \vi.zjɛʁ\.
What does "visière" mean?
As a noun, "visière" means: Pièce du casque qui se haussait et qui se baissait, et au travers de laquelle l’homme d’armes voyait et respirait.
What words are commonly confused with "visière"?
"visière" is commonly confused with "visite", "vivier", "visser". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "visière"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "visière" is \vi.zjɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "visière" come from?
"visière" 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 "visière", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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

vantant#37,119tumulus#37,109abysses#37,144tribale#37,102

Similar misspelling depth

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

trophy10 variantstralala10 variantstimbré10 variantstendait10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list