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curiste

French, noun/ky.ʁist/

curiste is a French masculine noun meaning “a person who takes the cure (waters) at a spa” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne qui fait une cure thermale”.

What does curiste mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinea person who takes the cure (waters) at a spa

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

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Personne qui fait une cure thermale.

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 curiste

  • curistes plural

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

How do you pronounce curiste?

  • /ky.ʁist/
  • \ky.ʁist\

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

How common is curiste in French?

curiste appears about once in every 36 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).