visiter
French, verb/vi.zi.te/
visiter is spelled V-I-S-I-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears 23 times per million words in written French, the 3,324th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Visiter is a French verb meaning “to visit (a place)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Aller voir en détail une ville, un monument, un musée, par dévotion ou par curiosité”.
What does visiter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to visit (a place)
Tu dois visiter Paris un jour.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Aller voir en détail une ville, un monument, un musée, par dévotion ou par curiosité. 2. S’assurer que les choses sont dans l’ordre où elles doivent être ; inspecter. 3. Aller voir quelqu’un chez lui sans séjourner. 4. Observer ou inspecter un lieu pour se donner un avis.
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 visiter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- visitant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- visité participle past
- visite first-person indicative present
- visites indicative present second-person
- visitons first-person indicative plural
- visitez indicative plural present
- visitent indicative plural present
- visitais first-person imperfect indicative
- visitait imperfect indicative singular
- visitions first-person imperfect indicative
- visitiez imperfect indicative plural
- visitaient imperfect indicative plural
- visitai first-person historic indicative
- visitas historic indicative past
- visita historic indicative past
- visitâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce visiter?
- /vi.zi.te/
- \vi.zi.te\
- [vi.zi.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to visiter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is visiter in French?
visiter appears 23 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).