velour
/vəˈlʊə(ɹ)/noun
velour is a noun meaning “A knit fabric similar to velvet, but usually somewhat coarser” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-L-O-U-R and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of velour is velours.
What does velour mean?
noun
- 1
A knit fabric similar to velvet, but usually somewhat coarser.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce velour?
- /vəˈlʊə(ɹ)/
- /vəˈlɔː/
Velour has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-velour.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of velour
- velours plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is velour?
Velour appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 56,788th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Velour in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a knit fabric similar to velvet, but usually somewhat coarser:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does velour come from?
Borrowed from French velours (“velvet”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).