magnétoscope
French, noun
magnétoscope is spelled M-A-G-N-É-T-O-S-C-O-P-E (12 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 55,824th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Magnétoscope is a French masculine noun meaning “videocassette recorder” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of magnétoscoper. With an accent, magnétoscopé is a different word: “past participle of magnétoscoper”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Appareil branché sur une télévision pour enregistrer ou lire les images d’un programme télé sur une bande…”.
What does magnétoscope mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinevideocassette recorder
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of magnétoscoper
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Appareil branché sur une télévision pour enregistrer ou lire les images d’un programme télé sur une bande magnétique enfermée dans une cassette.
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 magnétoscope
- magnétoscopes plural
- magnétoscopée feminine
- magnétoscopés masculine plural
- magnétoscopées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is magnétoscope in French?
magnétoscope appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).