galbe
French, noun
galbe is spelled G-A-L-B-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 68,150th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Galbe is a French masculine noun meaning “curve; silhouette” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, galbé is a different word: “rounded”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ligne de profil, contour d’un morceau d’architecture”.
What does galbe mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecurve; silhouette
adjective
- 1
rounded
- 2
curved
verb
- 1
past participle of galber
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Arrondi, cintré, courbe, concave ou convexe.
noun: 1. Ligne de profil, contour d’un morceau d’architecture. 2. Contour rond d’une figure, d’une partie du corps. 3. Forme générale d’un ski caractérisée par les largeurs comparées de la spatule, du patin et du talon.
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 galbe
- galbes plural
- galbée feminine
- galbés masculine plural
- galbées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is galbe in French?
galbe appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).