galoubet
French, noun/ɡa.lu.bɛ/
galoubet is spelled G-A-L-O-U-B-E-T (8 letters) and appears about once in every 33 million words in written French, the 184,024th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Galoubet is a French masculine noun meaning “galoubet (a type of flute)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Petite flûte à bec à trois trous qui se joue à une main, et de deux octaves plus élevée que la flûte…”.
What does galoubet mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinegaloubet (a type of flute)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Petite flûte à bec à trois trous qui se joue à une main, et de deux octaves plus élevée que la flûte traversière. 2. Voix qui porte ; voix qui reste bien placée quand on la monte.
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 galoubet
- galoubets plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce galoubet?
- /ɡa.lu.bɛ/
- \ɡa.lu.bɛ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is galoubet in French?
galoubet appears about once in every 33 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).