videocassette
/ˌvɪdi.oʊkəˈsɛt/noun
videocassette is a noun meaning “A cassette containing a blank or prerecorded videotape on which visual images and sounds are recorded for use with a VCR” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-D-E-O-C-A-S-S-E-T-T-E and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of videocassette is videocassettes.
What does videocassette mean?
noun
- 1
A cassette containing a blank or prerecorded videotape on which visual images and sounds are recorded for use with a VCR.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce videocassette?
- /ˌvɪdi.oʊkəˈsɛt/
- /ˈvɪdi.oʊkəˌsɛt/
Videocassette has 5 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)-Vealhurl-videocassette.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of videocassette
- videocassettes plural
- video cassette
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is videocassette?
Videocassette appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th 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).
Videocassette in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense cassette containing recorded videotape:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | vidéocassette |
| German | Videokassette |
| Portuguese | videocassete |
| Spanish | videocasete, cinta de vídeo |
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.