flibustiers
\fli.bys.tje\
The verdict
“flibustiers” is uncommon French (frequency #69,093 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,093
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de flibustier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flibustiers · flibustiers · French
flibustiers · rank #69,093 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,093
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flanquer
Nearest frequency peer: flanquer (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « flibustiers »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- flairer
flairer
30,911 corpus weight
- flanquer
flanquer
30,909 corpus weight
- flibustiers
flibustiers
30,908 corpus weight
- flirtent
flirtent
30,907 corpus weight
- flirts
flirts
30,906 corpus weight
- fluffy
fluffy
30,905 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flibustiers » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flibustiers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fli.bys.tje\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #69,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flibustiers » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flibustiers is uncommon French at frequency #69,093 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fli.bys.tje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de flibustier.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for flibustiers, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is flibustiers, spelled F-L-I-B-U-S-T-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de flibustier.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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