vélique
French, adjective\ve.lik\
vélique is spelled V-É-L-I-Q-U-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 95 million words in written French, the 304,757th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vélique is a French adjective meaning “velic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui se rapporte aux voiles d'un navire, à sa voilure”.
What does vélique mean in English?
adjective
- 1
velic
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui se rapporte aux voiles d'un navire, à sa voilure. 2. Poussée vélique, force; effort du vent sur la voile. 3. Point vélique, lieu d'application de l'effort du vent sur la voile.
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 vélique
- véliques plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vélique?
- \ve.lik\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is vélique in French?
vélique appears about once in every 95 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).