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
241
cat chat 11
242
lost perdu 11
243
sport sport 11
244
that qui 11
245
go allez 11
246
fear peur 11
247
knows sait 11
248
bought acheté 11
249
during en 11
250
head tête 11
251
taxi taxi 11
252
herself s’ 11
253
your ton 11
254
green verte 10
255
orange orange 10
256
Lille Lille 10
257
so si 10
258
telephone téléphone 10
259
me m’ 10
260
to take prendre 10
261
all tous 10
262
twelve douze 10
263
black noir 10
264
new nouveau 10
265
day journée 10
266
Thursday jeudi 10
267
man homme 10
268
desk bureau 10
269
music musique 10
270
parents parents 10
271
salad salade 10
272
floor étage 10
273
seats places 10
274
are sommes 10
275
work travail 10
276
late tard 10
277
yellow jaune 10
278
sentence phrase 10
279
then alors 10
280
weekend weekend 10