visa

Other forms of visa

plural

visas·

past tense

visaed·

present participle

visaing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about visa

What does visa mean?

visa means "provide (a passport) with a visa". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in visa?

visa has 2 syllables: vi-sa. The stress falls on "vi". In IPA it is /ˈvizə/.

Is visa a common word?

visa is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.