visor

Other forms of visor

plural

visors·

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 visor

What does visor mean?

visor means "a piece of armor plate (with eye slits) fixed or hinged to a medieval helmet to protect the face". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in visor?

visor has 2 syllables: vi-sor. The stress falls on "vi". In IPA it is /ˈvaɪzɚ/.

What is another word for visor?

Close synonyms include vizor, bill, peak, eyeshade, vizor. 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 visor a common word?

visor 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.

What rhymes with visor?

4 words rhyme with visor. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.