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
3201
cats chats 1
3202
prohibition défense 1
3203
few peu de 1
3204
neighbour voisin 1
3205
frightened effrayés 1
3206
will miss (1st person singular) manquerai 1
3207
jewellery shop; jewelry store bijouterie 1
3208
accept; are accepting (1st person plural) acceptons 1
3209
unicycle mono 1
3210
seventh septième 1
3211
to eject éjecter 1
3212
exclamation exclamation 1
3213
tram tram 1
3214
arrived (masculine singular) arrivé 1
3215
Elise (girl’s name) Elise 1
3216
to forget oublier 1
3217
drunk (masculine singular) bu 1
3218
duckling caneton 1
3219
drinks; is drinking boit 1
3220
pencil crayon 1
3221
François (boy’s name) François 1
3222
olives olives 1
3223
serve; are serving servez 1
3224
soft (masculine singular) doux 1
3225
meal vouchers chèques repas 1
3226
furious (feminine singular) furieuse 1
3227
feels; is feeling sent 1
3228
nail ongle 1
3229
toe orteil 1
3230
plates; slabs plaques 1
3231
reasonable (plural) raisonnables 1
3232
happy (feminine) heureuse 1
3233
elegant (feminine, plural) élégantes 1
3234
tree arbre 1
3235
tidying rangement 1
3236
circumstances circonstances 1
3237
oil (adjective, feminine singular) pétrolière 1
3238
Erik Erik 1
3239
charges charges 1
3240
law droit 1