videodisc
noun
videodisc is a noun meaning “An optical disc containing a video recording that can be viewed on a television receiver” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-D-E-O-D-I-S-C, and it appears about once in every 37 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of videodisc is videodiscs.
What does videodisc mean?
noun
- 1
An optical disc containing a video recording that can be viewed on a television receiver.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of videodisc
- videodiscs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is videodisc?
Videodisc appears about once in every 37 million words in written English, the 187,122nd 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).
Videodisc in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense an optical disc used to record video images on special equipment:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | vidéodisque |
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 videodisc come from?
From video + disc.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).