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virement

French, noun/viʁ.mɑ̃/

virement is spelled V-I-R-E-M-E-N-T (8 letters) and appears 2.9 times per million words in written French, the 16,327th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Virement is a French masculine noun meaning “bank transfer, wire transfer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de virer”.

What does virement mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinebank transfer, wire transfer

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Action de virer. 2. Virement de bord. 3. Action de tourner, de pivoter. 4. Transport d’une somme d’un compte à un autre, d’un chapitre de budget à un autre.

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 virement

  • virements plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce virement?

  • /viʁ.mɑ̃/
  • \viʁ.mɑ̃\
  • [viʁ.mɑ̃]

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to virement

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is virement in French?

virement appears 2.9 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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