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triboulet

French, noun/tʁi.bu.lɛ/

triboulet is spelled T-R-I-B-O-U-L-E-T (9 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 105,879th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Triboulet is a French masculine noun meaning “triboulet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Outil d’orfèvre formé d’un cylindre en bois servant à arrondir les feuilles de métal”.

What does triboulet mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinetriboulet

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

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Outil d’orfèvre formé d’un cylindre en bois servant à arrondir les feuilles de métal 2. Cône allongé servant à déterminer le diamètre des bagues. 3. Outil servant à reproduire les nervures sur les fleurs et feuilles artificielles.

noun: 1. Personnage grotesque.

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 triboulet

  • triboulets plural

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

How do you pronounce triboulet?

  • /tʁi.bu.lɛ/
  • \tʁi.bu.lɛ\

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

How common is triboulet in French?

triboulet appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.

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

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