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
3241
to do someone’s hair coiffer 1
3242
jokes; pranks blagues 1
3243
gathers; is gathering réunit 1
3244
Nevers (town) Nevers 1
3245
cruel (feminine singular) cruelle 1
3246
strict strict 1
3247
to tan bronzer 1
3248
crazy; mad (feminine) folle 1
3249
possible; feasible possible 1
3250
invented (masculine singular) inventé 1
3251
pastry pâtisserie 1
3252
Eduardo Eduardo 1
3253
frugal économe 1
3254
Japan (short form) Japon 1
3255
psychology psychologie 1
3256
Libra balance 1
3257
sitting; sitting down assis 1
3258
internship stage 1
3259
to join; to access accéder 1
3260
polo shirt polo 1
3261
wrist poignet 1
3262
proud (masculine) fier 1
3263
way; manner façon 1
3264
would go out (3rd person singular) sortirait 1
3265
naughty; ugly vilain 1
3266
waffle gaufre 1
3267
bonds obligations 1
3268
pink (plural) roses 1
3269
was fut 1
3270
almost presque 1
3271
suitcase valise 1
3272
give; are giving donnons 1
3273
African africaine 1
3274
appearance; look air 1
3275
administrator; manager (feminine) administratrice 1
3276
present; are presenting (2nd person plural) présentez 1
3277
exclamation mark (!) point d’exclamation 1
3278
to forget oublier 1
3279
drunk (masculine singular) bu 1
3280
duckling caneton 1