vélocipède
French, noun/ve.lɔ.si.pɛd/
vélocipède is spelled V-É-L-O-C-I-P-È-D-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written French, the 125,137th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vélocipède is a French masculine noun meaning “a velocipede” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular indicative/subjunctive present of vélocipéder. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Appareil de locomotion dont on met les roues en mouvement avec les pieds”.
What does vélocipède mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea velocipede
- 2
masculineobsoletea bicycle
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular indicative/subjunctive present
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Appareil de locomotion dont on met les roues en mouvement avec les pieds. 2. Bicyclette ; vélo.
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 vélocipède
- vélocipèdes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vélocipède?
- /ve.lɔ.si.pɛd/
- \ve.lɔ.si.pɛd\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to vélocipède
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vélocipède in French?
vélocipède appears about once in every 15 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).