vélocité
French, noun/ve.lɔ.si.te/
vélocité is spelled V-É-L-O-C-I-T-É (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 42,802nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vélocité is a French feminine noun meaning “velocity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Vitesse, rapidité”.
What does vélocité mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininevelocity
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Vitesse, rapidité. 2. Vecteur vitesse, vecteur représentant la vitesse et la direction d’un mouvement, par opposition à la vitesse, qui ne comprend pas la direction.
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 vélocité
- vélocités plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vélocité?
- /ve.lɔ.si.te/
- \ve.lɔ.si.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to vélocité
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vélocité in French?
vélocité appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).