vizor

Other forms of vizor

plural

vizors·

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 vizor

What does vizor mean?

vizor 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 vizor?

vizor has 2 syllables and divides as vi-zor under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for vizor?

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

vizor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.