tourbière
French, noun/tuʁ.bjɛʁ/
tourbière is a French feminine noun meaning “bog” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Endroit d’où l’on extrait de la tourbe”.
What does tourbière mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininebog
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Endroit d’où l’on extrait de la tourbe. 2. Sol formé de tourbe. 3. Celle qui extrait la tourbe.
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 tourbière
- tourbières plural
- tourbier masculine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tourbière?
- /tuʁ.bjɛʁ/
- \tuʁ.bjɛʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tourbière
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tourbière in French?
tourbière 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).