velcro
\vɛl.kʁo\
The verdict
“velcro” is uncommon French (frequency #67,194 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,194
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Système de fermeture qui consiste en deux bandes auto-agrippantes de texture différente permettant lorsqu’on les met en contact d’obtenir rapidement une liaison amovible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-velcro · velcro · French
velcro · rank #67,194 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,194
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH veinard
Nearest frequency peer: veinard (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « velcro »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vannier
vannier
32,809 corpus weight
- veinard
veinard
32,808 corpus weight
- velcro
velcro
32,807 corpus weight
- ventilé
ventilé
32,806 corpus weight
- verdâtres
verdâtres
32,805 corpus weight
- vexés
vexés
32,804 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « velcro » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | velcro |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛl.kʁo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,194 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « velcro » en français
Rare enough to double-check
velcro is uncommon French at frequency #67,194 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vɛl.kʁo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Système de fermeture qui consiste en deux bandes auto-agrippantes de texture différente permettant lorsqu’on les met en contact d’obtenir rapidement une liaison amovible.".
velcro has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is velcro, spelled V-E-L-C-R-O.
Definition
- 1Système de fermeture qui consiste en deux bandes auto-agrippantes de texture différente permettant lorsqu’on les met en contact d’obtenir rapidement une liaison amovible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how velcro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour les enfants qui ne savent pas nouer les lacets, c’est pratique le velcro comme système de fermeture.
Le velcro a été imité de la bardane.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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