culbuteur
French, noun/kyl.by.tœʁ/
culbuteur is spelled C-U-L-B-U-T-E-U-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written French, the 161,134th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Culbuteur is a French masculine noun meaning “rocker arm” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pièce de mécanique destinée à transmettre un mouvement en en changeant la direction et le sens”.
What does culbuteur mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerocker arm
- 2
masculinetumbler (mechanism)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pièce de mécanique destinée à transmettre un mouvement en en changeant la direction et le sens. 2. Dispositif destiné à faire culbuter un wagon contenant du vrac dans le but de le vider.
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 culbuteur
- culbuteurs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce culbuteur?
- /kyl.by.tœʁ/
- \kyl.by.tœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is culbuteur in French?
culbuteur appears about once in every 25 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).