ligue
Spanish, noun
ligue is spelled L-I-G-U-E (5 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written Spanish, the 30,789th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ligue is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “cruising (a concerted effort to find sex) or gay sex” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of ligar. With an accent, ligué is a different word: “first-person singular preterite indicative of ligar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de ligar, en el sentido de atraer o seducir a alguien en busca de una relación sexual, a…”.
What does ligue mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialmasculinecruising (a concerted effort to find sex) or gay sex
- 2
colloquialmasculinefling, pickup, hookup (action and person)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
first-person singular preterite indicative of ligar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción o efecto de ligar, en el sentido de atraer o seducir a alguien en busca de una relación sexual, a menudo pasajera, o de pareja. 2. Persona a quien se atrae o seduce para una relación sexual o de pareja.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of ligue
- ligues plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is ligue in Spanish?
ligue appears 1.2 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).