velum
French, noun
velum is spelled V-E-L-U-M (5 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written French, the 130,697th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Velum is a French masculine noun meaning “velum” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, vélum is a different word: “post-1990 spelling of velum”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Grande pièce d’étoffe servant de rideau contre la lumière, ou de couverture à un grand espace sans toiture”.
What does velum mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinevelum
noun
- 1
masculinepost-1990 spelling of velum
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Grande pièce d’étoffe servant de rideau contre la lumière, ou de couverture à un grand espace sans toiture. 2. Voile nuageux annexe à grande extension horizontale, situé légèrement au-dessus des sommets d'un ou de plusieurs nuages cumuliformes.
noun: 1. Variante de velum. 2. Ce qui fait obstacle à la vue, à la découverte.
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 velum
- velums plural
- vélum alternative
- vélums plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is velum in French?
velum appears about once in every 16 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).