tuberculine
French, noun\ty.bɛʁ.ky.lin\
tuberculine is spelled T-U-B-E-R-C-U-L-I-N-E (11 letters) and appears about once in every 33 million words in written French, the 184,024th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tuberculine is a French feminine noun meaning “tuberculin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Extrait de cultures du bacille tuberculeux utilisé pour révéler l’exposition de l’animal ou de l’homme à ce…”.
What does tuberculine mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininetuberculin
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Extrait de cultures du bacille tuberculeux utilisé pour révéler l’exposition de l’animal ou de l’homme à ce bacille par tuberculination.
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 tuberculine
- tuberculines plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tuberculine?
- \ty.bɛʁ.ky.lin\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tuberculine
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tuberculine in French?
tuberculine 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).