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vinyle

French, noun/vi.nil/

vinyle is a French masculine noun meaning “vinyl” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Alkyle de l’éthylène où un atome d’hydrogène est remplacé par un radical lié à la base -CH=CH2”.

What does vinyle mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    vinyl

noun

  1. 1

    masculinevinyl

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

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Alkyle de l’éthylène où un atome d’hydrogène est remplacé par un radical lié à la base -CH=CH2. 2. Disque vinyle ; disque en polychlorure de vinyle ; disque microsillon.

adjective: 1. Utilisant le vinyle, réalisé avec un vinyle.

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 vinyle

  • vinyles plural
  • vinyl

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

How do you pronounce vinyle?

  • /vi.nil/
  • \vi.nil\

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

English words that translate to vinyle

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

How common is vinyle in French?

vinyle appears 3.0 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).