tube
French, noun
tube is spelled T-U-B-E (4 letters) and appears 16 times per million words in written French, the 4,565th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tube is a French masculine noun meaning “pipe” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, tubé is a different word: “past participle of tuber”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Conduit, tuyau de plomb, de verre, de fer, etc., par où les gaz ou les liquides peuvent circuler”.
What does tube mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepipe
- 2
masculinetube
- 3
informalmasculinea hit
Chacune de ses chansons était un tube.
- 4
masculineslangmoney
verb
- 1
past participle of tuber
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Conduit, tuyau de plomb, de verre, de fer, etc., par où les gaz ou les liquides peuvent circuler. 2. Emballage le plus souvent en plastique ou métallique, fermé à un bout et muni d’un bouchon à l’autre extrémité. 3. Partie inférieure d’un calice, d’une corolle monopétale. 4. Petits tuyaux parallèles qui garnissent la surface inférieure du chapeau de certains champignons.
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 tube
- tubes plural
- tubée feminine
- tubés masculine plural
- tubées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to tube
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tube in French?
tube appears 16 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).