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visière

French, noun/vi.zjɛʁ/

visière is spelled V-I-S-I-È-R-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 36,757th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Visière is a French feminine noun meaning “visor (part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pièce du casque qui se haussait et qui se baissait, et au travers de laquelle l’homme d’armes voyait et…”.

What does visière mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininevisor (part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face)

  2. 2

    feminineeyeshade (type of headgear for shielding the eyes from glaring light)

  3. 3

    femininebrim or peak (part of a cap)

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Pièce du casque qui se haussait et qui se baissait, et au travers de laquelle l’homme d’armes voyait et respirait. 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.

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 visière

  • visières plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce visière?

  • /vi.zjɛʁ/
  • \vi.zjɛʁ\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to visière

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is visière in French?

visière appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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