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
1801
donkey âne 2
1802
Pulitzer (surname) Pulitzer 2
1803
raise; am raising; rise; am rising lève 2
1804 Something wrong with file. Please reupload. blue (feminine plural) bleues 2
1805
see; are seeing voyons 2
1806
petanque pétanque 2
1807
Céline (girl’s name) Céline 2
1808
pound livre 2
1809
stressed stressé 2
1810
to sell vendre 2
1811
hairs (body) poils 2
1812
wear shoes chausse 2
1813
ticket (bus, metro, tram) ticket 2
1814
colours couleurs 2
1815
character personnage 2
1816
clinics cliniques 2
1817
photos photos 2
1818
decision décision 2
1819
international (masculine plural) internationaux 2
1820
flower fleur 2
1821
sporty (feminine) sportive 2
1822
mistletoe gui 2
1823
ingredient ingrédient 2
1824
onion oignon 2
1825
plum prune 2
1826
parallelogram parallélogramme 2
1827
to drink boire 2
1828
Bizet (French composer) Bizet 2
1829
receives; is receiving reçoit 2
1830
desserts (plural) desserts 2
1831
cooking cuisine 2
1832
petrol station (British); gas station (American) station-essence 2
1833
portuguese (feminine) portugaise 2
1834
roller blading roller 2
1835
new (feminine plural) nouvelles 2
1836
realistic réaliste 2
1837
lettuce laitue 2
1838
dolphins dauphins 2
1839
bath; bathtub baignoire 2
1840
Courtois (family name) Courtois 2