flingue
French, noun
flingue is spelled F-L-I-N-G-U-E (7 letters) and appears 2.5 times per million words in written French, the 17,903rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flingue is a French masculine noun meaning “shooter, pistol, gat (gun)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of flinguer. With an accent, flingué is a different word: “past participle of flinguer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fusil”.
What does flingue mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialmasculineshooter, pistol, gat (gun)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of flinguer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fusil. 2. Pistolet ; arme à feu.
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 flingue
- flingues plural
- flinguée feminine
- flingués masculine plural
- flinguées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to flingue
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is flingue in French?
flingue appears 2.5 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).