ips
French, noun
ips is spelled I-P-S (3 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 38,702nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ips is a French noun meaning “"images par seconde" – frames per seconde (fps)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, IPS is a different word: “initialism of image par seconde (“FPS”)”.
What does ips mean in English?
noun
- 1
"images par seconde" – frames per seconde (fps);
noun
- 1
feminineinitialism of image par seconde (“FPS”)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
symbol: 1. Unité de mesure de la fréquence d’échantillonnage d’un film : nombre d’images qui défilent par seconde.
noun: 1. Infirmier praticien spécialisé.
noun: 1. Indice de position sociale.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of ips
- IPSs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is ips in French?
ips appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).