tubiste
French, noun\ty.bist\
tubiste is spelled T-U-B-I-S-T-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 60 million words in written French, the 244,837th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tubiste is a French feminine noun meaning “tubaist” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Joueur de tuba (instrument de musique)”.
What does tubiste mean in English?
noun
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Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Joueur de tuba (instrument de musique). 2. Employé qui se chargeait de l'expédition des télégrammes (ou pneumatiques) par tubes sous vide. 3. Ouvrier travaillant en sous-sol pour creuser la terre, et utilisant un tube pour évacuer cette terre vers l’extérieur.
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 tubiste
- tubistes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tubiste?
- \ty.bist\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tubiste in French?
tubiste appears about once in every 60 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).