couleuvrine
French, noun/ku.lœ.vʁin/
couleuvrine is spelled C-O-U-L-E-U-V-R-I-N-E (11 letters) and appears about once in every 35 million words in written French, the 190,022nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Couleuvrine is a French feminine noun meaning “culverin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ancienne pièce d’artillerie plus longue que les canons employés alors”.
What does couleuvrine mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineculverin
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ancienne pièce d’artillerie plus longue que les canons employés alors. 2. Nom vernaculaire de la renouée bistorte (Bistorta officinalis), un simple.
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 couleuvrine
- couleuvrines plural
- coulevrine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce couleuvrine?
- /ku.lœ.vʁin/
- \ku.lœ.vʁin\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to couleuvrine
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is couleuvrine in French?
couleuvrine appears about once in every 35 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).