pirater
French, verb\pi.ʁa.te\
pirater is spelled P-I-R-A-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears 2.3 times per million words in written French, the 18,966th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pirater is a French verb meaning “to pirate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire le métier de pirate”.
What does pirater mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pirate
- 2
to hack (into)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire le métier de pirate. 2. Attaquer un site, un serveur, etc., y accéder sournoisement. 3. Télécharger illégalement de la musique, des vidéos, des applications et les utiliser en infraction à la législation sur les droits d’auteur. 4. Voler, profiter de quelque chose ne vous étant pas destiné.
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 pirater
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- piratant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- piraté participle past
- pirate first-person indicative present
- pirates indicative present second-person
- piratons first-person indicative plural
- piratez indicative plural present
- piratent indicative plural present
- piratais first-person imperfect indicative
- piratait imperfect indicative singular
- pirations first-person imperfect indicative
- piratiez imperfect indicative plural
- pirataient imperfect indicative plural
- piratai first-person historic indicative
- piratas historic indicative past
- pirata historic indicative past
- piratâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pirater?
- \pi.ʁa.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pirater
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pirater in French?
pirater appears 2.3 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).