vélo
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,304
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
vélo is aFrenchnoun. It means: Véhicule muni de deux roues, propulsé à la force des muscles à l’aide d’un pédalier relié à la roue arrière au moyen d’une chaîne. Pronounced \ve.lo\. It ranks #2,304 in French word frequency. Often confused with vo and VL.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vélo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ve.lo\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,304 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for vélo is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ve.lo\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,304 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for vélo, with forms such as "velo", "vléo", and "vvélo". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vo", "VL", "vol", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is vélo, spelled V-É-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Véhicule muni de deux roues, propulsé à la force des muscles à l’aide d’un pédalier relié à la roue arrière au moyen d’une chaîne.
- 2Cyclisme ; pratique de la bicyclette ; sport cycliste.
- 3Ciseau de graveur sur bois.
- 4carte sans valeur (synonyme de carte basse)
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: velo,vléo,vvélo,véllo,véol,évlo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vélo
Misspelling Variants of "vélo"
Frequency rank: #2,304 in French
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