véloce
\ve.lɔs\
The verdict
“véloce” is uncommon French (frequency #57,685 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,685
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Très rapide, qui se déplace à une grande vitesse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-veloce · véloce · French
véloce · rank #57,685 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,685
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vomissent
Nearest frequency peer: vomissent (-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 « véloce »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vicariat
vicariat
42,321 corpus weight
- Volgograd
Volgograd
42,318 corpus weight
- vomissent
vomissent
42,317 corpus weight
- véloce
véloce
42,316 corpus weight
- waka
waka
42,314 corpus weight
- Whelan
Whelan
42,312 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « véloce » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | véloce |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ve.lɔs\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,685 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « véloce » en français
Rare enough to double-check
véloce is uncommon French at frequency #57,685 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ve.lɔs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
véloce doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is véloce, spelled V-É-L-O-C-E.
Definition
- 1Très rapide, qui se déplace à une grande vitesse.
- 2Très habile, qui exécute des mouvements rapides et précis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how véloce appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des hirondelles, véloces comme des flèches, frisaient du bout de leur aile noire cette surface endormie.
Aux mouvements pressés du tambour, les pas des danseurs devinrent durant un instant si vifs, si véloces, qu’enivrés par la danse ils paraissaient oublier tout danger, et dansaient là comme dans une vaste prairie.
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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