visa

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, visa sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

6vise, vita

• nounan endorsement made in a passport that allows the bearer to enter the country issuing it
• verbprovide (a passport) with a visa
• verbapprove officially

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as v iy1 z ah0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

1 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• silesia

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.

• vise
• vita
• viva
• vasa
• viga
• vina

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts V2,735
• Starts VI863
• Ends A
• 4 letters starting V

Tier: everyday. The tiers come from the English Speller Database and rank by list size, not by how often a word is used — see where the words come from.