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
3081
accounting comptabilité 1
3082
smoke fumez 1
3083
relaxation; rest détente 1
3084
trousers pantalon 1
3085
foundation fondation 1
3086
chest poitrine 1
3087
lynx lynx 1
3088
bear cub ourson 1
3089
aubergines (British); eggplants (American) aubergines 1
3090
pastries pâtisseries 1
3091
fan ventilateur 1
3092
first premiers 1
3093
to enter entrer 1
3094
promise promets 1
3095
attacked attaqués 1
3096
arboreal arboricole 1
3097
fleas puces 1
3098
Maltese (masculine) maltais 1
3099
will arrive (1st person singular) arriverai 1
3100
relative relative 1
3101
leaf feuille 1
3102
to receive accueillir 1
3103
fungus champignon 1
3104
delivery livraison 1
3105
university (adjective, plural) universitaires 1
3106
punctuation ponctuation 1
3107
metro; underground métro 1
3108
lyrics paroles 1
3109
Oscar (boy’s name) Oscar 1
3110
series série 1
3111
disorder trouble 1
3112
tents tentes 1
3113
registered (feminine singular) déposée 1
3114
hates déteste 1
3115
skiing ski 1
3116
razorbill; auk pingouin 1
3117
worldwide (feminine) mondiale 1
3118
has Christmas or New Year’s Eve dinner; is having Christmas or New Year’s Eve dinner réveillonne 1
3119
François (boy’s name) François 1
3120
olives olives 1