virelai
French, noun/viʁ.lɛ/
virelai is spelled V-I-R-E-L-A-I (7 letters) and appears about once in every 59 million words in written French, the 242,150th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Virelai is a French masculine noun meaning “virelai” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Danse médiévale”.
What does virelai mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinevirelai
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Danse médiévale. 2. Ancienne petite pièce de poésie française, qui est toute sur deux rimes et composée de vers courts, avec des refrains.
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 virelai
- virelais plural
- virlet
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce virelai?
- /viʁ.lɛ/
- \vi.ʁə.lɛ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is virelai in French?
virelai appears about once in every 59 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).