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
1881
help aide 2
1882
Céline (girl’s name) Céline 2
1883
pound livre 2
1884
drink (1st person singular) bois 2
1885
expensive cher 2
1886
to lose weight mincir 2
1887
frightening (feminine) effrayante 2
1888
student (female) étudiante 2
1889
hairs (body) poils 2
1890
Courtois (family name) Courtois 2
1891
friend (feminine) amie 2
1892
arrive; are arriving arrivent 2
1893
dairy (from the word for cream) crèmerie 2
1894
sad triste 2
1895
casual jacket blouson 2
1896
to renew renouveler 2
1897
spell; curse sort 2
1898
United Kingdom Royaume-Uni 2
1899
trainer; sports shoe basket 2
1900
you; yourself (before a vowel sound) t’ 2
1901
to install installer 2
1902
A A 2
1903
butterfly papillon 2
1904
anger colère 2
1905
formats; is formatting formate 2
1906
old (feminine) vieille 2
1907
advises; is advising conseille 2
1908
say; am saying dis 2
1909
portuguese (feminine) portugaise 2
1910
weight training musculation 2
1911
new (feminine plural) nouvelles 2
1912
meet (1st person singular) rencontre 2
1913
violent violent 2
1914
dolphins dauphins 2
1915
bath; bathtub baignoire 2
1916
Didier Didier 2
1917
exactly exactement 2
1918
juggler jongleur 2
1919
Laura (girl’s name) Laura 2
1920
silver; money argent 2