visage

Other forms of visage

plural

visages·

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 visage

What does visage mean?

visage means "the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in visage?

visage has 2 syllables: vis-age. The stress falls on "vis". In IPA it is /ˈvɪzədʒ/.

What is another word for visage?

Close synonyms include countenance, physiognomy, phiz, kisser, smiler. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is visage a common word?

visage is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.