Understand spoken French

Words by frequency

The following shows a list of all the words on the site ordered by the number of times they appear in the sample sentences. So, for example, if a word happens to turn up in 50 of our example sentences, then it will appear higher up than a word which only appears in 10 of our example sentences. The number of example sentences in which a particular word appears is also shown. By clicking on a word you can see a list of all the example sentences in which that word appears. Note that this Lingopolo frequency table is not likely to give the same results as a scientific study based on millions and millions of sentences: the Lingopolo frequency is only based on the sentences on Lingopolo. For practical purposes though, the Lingopolo approximation is good enough to ensure that words are learnt in approximately the most useful order.
Rank Recording English French Examples count Learn
1241
hairs (body) poils 2
1242
wear shoes chausse 2
1243
ticket (bus, metro, tram) ticket 2
1244
colours couleurs 2
1245
character personnage 2
1246
clinics cliniques 2
1247
photos photos 2
1248
decision décision 2
1249
international (masculine plural) internationaux 2
1250
flower fleur 2
1251
sporty (feminine) sportive 2
1252
mistletoe gui 2
1253
ingredient ingrédient 2
1254
onion oignon 2
1255
plum prune 2
1256
parallelogram parallélogramme 2
1257
to drink boire 2
1258
Bizet (French composer) Bizet 2
1259
receives; is receiving reçoit 2
1260
desserts (plural) desserts 2
1261
cooking cuisine 2
1262
portuguese (feminine) portugaise 2
1263
roller blading roller 2
1264
new (feminine plural) nouvelles 2
1265
realistic réaliste 2
1266
lettuce laitue 2
1267
dolphins dauphins 2
1268
bath; bathtub baignoire 2
1269
Courtois (family name) Courtois 2
1270
friend (feminine) amie 2
1271
arrive; are arriving arrivent 2
1272
dairy (from the word for cream) crèmerie 2
1273
sad triste 2
1274
T-shirt T-shirt; tee-shirt 2
1275
mirror miroir 2
1276
notebook cahier 2
1277
aperitif; drink before a meal apéritif 2
1278
passage passage 2
1279
grilled (masculine plural) grillés 2
1280
know (2nd person singular) connais 2