vison
French, noun/vi.zɔ̃/
vison is spelled V-I-S-O-N (5 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 35,862nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vison is a French masculine noun meaning “mink” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Espèce de petit mammifère de la famille des mustélidés, dont la fourrure est très estimée”.
What does vison mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemink
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Espèce de petit mammifère de la famille des mustélidés, dont la fourrure est très estimée. 2. Vison d’Europe, au pelage brun foncé avec une tache blanche sur le menton et la lèvre supérieure. 3. Fourrure de cet animal. 4. Manteau de vison.
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 vison
- visons plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vison?
- /vi.zɔ̃/
- \vi.zɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to vison
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vison in French?
vison 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).