vélo
French, noun/ve.lo/
vélo is spelled V-É-L-O (4 letters) and appears 36 times per million words in written French, the 2,270th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vélo is a French masculine noun meaning “bike, bicycle, cycle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Véhicule muni de deux roues, propulsé à la force des muscles à l’aide d’un pédalier relié à la roue arrière…”.
What does vélo mean in English?
noun
- 1
informalmasculinebike, bicycle, cycle
- 2
informalmasculinecycling (the activity of riding bicycles)
faire du vélo
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. 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. 2. Cyclisme ; pratique de la bicyclette ; sport cycliste. 3. Ciseau de graveur sur bois. 4. carte sans valeur (synonyme de carte basse)
prefix: 1. Relatif à la rapidité, la vélocité. 2. Relatif à la vélocipédie, propulsion à pieds légers, propulsion par pédalage.
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 vélo
- vélos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vélo?
- /ve.lo/
- Switzerland /ve.lɔ/
- \ve.lo\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to vélo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vélo in French?
vélo appears 36 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).