coulomb
French, noun/ku.lɔ̃/
coulomb is spelled C-O-U-L-O-M-B (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 59,168th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Coulomb is a French masculine noun meaning “coulomb” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Unité de charge électrique du Système international, égale à la quantité de charge transférée par un courant…”.
What does coulomb mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecoulomb
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Unité de charge électrique du Système international, égale à la quantité de charge transférée par un courant d’un ampère en une seconde. Son symbole est C.
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 coulomb
- coulombs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce coulomb?
- /ku.lɔ̃/
- \ku.lɔ̃\
- [ku.lɔ̃]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to coulomb
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is coulomb in French?
coulomb appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).