bupreste
French, noun\by.pʁɛst\
bupreste is spelled B-U-P-R-E-S-T-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 85 million words in written French, the 288,492nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bupreste is a French masculine noun meaning “a buprestid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Insecte coléoptère de la famille des buprestidés, au corps long et à reflets métalliques”.
What does bupreste mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea buprestid
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Insecte coléoptère de la famille des buprestidés, au corps long et à reflets métalliques.
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 bupreste
- buprestes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bupreste?
- \by.pʁɛst\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is bupreste in French?
bupreste appears about once in every 85 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).