flic
French, noun/flik/
flic is spelled F-L-I-C (4 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written French, the 6,181st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flic is a French masculine noun meaning “police officer; copper; pig; rozzer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Policier”.
What does flic mean in English?
noun
- 1
derogatorymasculineslangpolice officer; copper; pig; rozzer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Policier. 2. N’importe quel représentant des forces de l'ordre.
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 flic
- flics plural
- fliquesse feminine
- flique
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce flic?
- /flik/
- \flik\
- [flik]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to flic
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is flic in French?
flic appears 11 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).