vélomoteur
\ve.lo.mɔ.tœʁ\
The verdict
“vélomoteur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Administrativement, motocyclette légère dont la cylindrée est comprise entre 50 et 124,9 cm³.
Corpus desk
Index FR-velomoteur · vélomoteur · French
vélomoteur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vélomoteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ve.lo.mɔ.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
vélomoteur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ve.lo.mɔ.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for vélomoteur, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 vélomoteur, spelled V-É-L-O-M-O-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Administrativement, motocyclette légère dont la cylindrée est comprise entre 50 et 124,9 cm³.
- 2Dans le langage courant, désigne également tout engin à deux roues et à moteur thermique de cylindrée inférieure à 50 cm³.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vélomoteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En France, la conduite d’un vélomoteur nécessite un permis spécial, dit permis A1.
Je vousdrais t’y voir! Je… Oh! Mon vélomoteur!
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.