flibustier
French, noun/fli.bys.tje/
flibustier is spelled F-L-I-B-U-S-T-I-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written French, the 93,632nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flibustier is a French masculine noun meaning “a filibuster, a pirate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Membre d’une association de pirates qui, aux xviiᵉ et xviiiᵉ siècles, couraient les mers d’Amérique”.
What does flibustier mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea filibuster, a pirate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est voleur. 2. Qui permet de pirater.
noun: 1. Membre d’une association de pirates qui, aux xviiᵉ et xviiiᵉ siècles, couraient les mers d’Amérique. 2. Aventurier qui vit de rapines.
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 flibustier
- flibustiers plural
- flibustière singular feminine
- flibustières plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce flibustier?
- /fli.bys.tje/
- \fli.bys.tje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to flibustier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is flibustier in French?
flibustier appears about once in every 8 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).