flibuste
French, noun
flibuste is spelled F-L-I-B-U-S-T-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 132,154th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flibuste is a French feminine noun meaning “buccaneering, freebooting” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of flibuster. With an accent, flibusté is a different word: “past participle of flibuster”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Métier du pirate des mers, activités relatives à la piraterie”.
What does flibuste mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininebuccaneering, freebooting
- 2
femininebuccaneers, freebooters (collectively)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of flibuster
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Métier du pirate des mers, activités relatives à la piraterie. 2. Association de pirates des mers, ensemble des pirates. 3. Activité de vol, de fraude ou d’escroquerie à grande échelle. 4. Association de ceux qui commettent vol, fraude ou escroquerie à grande échelle.
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 flibuste
- flibustes plural
- flibustée feminine
- flibustés masculine plural
- flibustées feminine plural
- fribuste obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is flibuste in French?
flibuste appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).