flipper
French, noun/fli.pœʁ/
flipper is spelled F-L-I-P-P-E-R (7 letters) and appears 4.8 times per million words in written French, the 11,545th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flipper is a French masculine noun meaning “pinball, pinball machine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Jeu d’arcade à monnayeur, dont le principe est de marquer des points en dirigeant une ou plusieurs billes…”.
What does flipper mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepinball, pinball machine
verb
- 1
colloquialslangto freak out
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Jeu d’arcade à monnayeur, dont le principe est de marquer des points en dirigeant une ou plusieurs billes métalliques sur un plateau de jeu séparé du joueur par une vitre.
verb: 1. Délirer sous l'effet de la drogue (avec une connotation positive ou négative). 2. Avoir peur, trembler de peur ; angoisser. 3. Rendre invisible un piercing nasal en le cachant dans le nez.
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 flipper
- flippers plural
- flippeur alternative noun
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- flippant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- flippé participle past
- flippe first-person indicative present
- flippes indicative present second-person
- flippons first-person indicative plural
- flippez indicative plural present
- flippent indicative plural present
- flippais first-person imperfect indicative
- flippait imperfect indicative singular
- flippions first-person imperfect indicative
- flippiez imperfect indicative plural
- flippaient imperfect indicative plural
- flippai first-person historic indicative
- flippas historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce flipper?
- /fli.pœʁ/
- /fli.pe/
- \fli.pœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to flipper
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is flipper in French?
flipper appears 4.8 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).