visiting

\ˈvɪz.ɪ.tɪŋ\

/\ˈvɪz.ɪ.tɪŋ\/ verb

The verdict

“visiting” is uncommon French (frequency #99,747 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#99,747
frequency rank, French
2,061
“V” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe to visit.

Corpus desk

Index FR-visiting · visiting · French

visiting · rank #99,747 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #99,747
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,061
  • PHOTO-FINISH viseurs

Nearest frequency peer: viseurs (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « visiting »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « visiting » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for visiting
PropertyValue
Headwordvisiting
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ˈvɪz.ɪ.tɪŋ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#99,747
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « visiting » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).visitingtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « viseurs » (#99,746), « Vitet » (#99,748), « vivir » (#99,749). Parmi 2,061 lemmes en « V », « visiting » est au #99,747. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

visiting is uncommon French at frequency #99,747 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈvɪz.ɪ.tɪŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for visiting, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is visiting, spelled V-I-S-I-T-I-N-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participe présent du verbe to visit.
  2. 2
    En visite.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. She was visiting us last summer.

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 "visiting"?
"visiting" is spelled V-I-S-I-T-I-N-G. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈvɪz.ɪ.tɪŋ\.
What does "visiting" mean?
As a verb, "visiting" means: Participe présent du verbe to visit.
How do you pronounce "visiting"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "visiting" is \ˈvɪz.ɪ.tɪŋ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "visiting" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list