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
2761
admire; am admiring admire 1
2762
in love (masculine) amoureux 1
2763
leave again; am leaving again repars 1
2764
ready (masculine singular) prêt 1
2765
diaeresis (¨) tréma 1
2766
slippers pantoufles 1
2767
blade; sprig brin 1
2768
Sylvestre (boy’s name) Sylvestre 1
2769
Europe (short form) Europe 1
2770
those ceux 1
2771
Anaïs (girl’s name) Anaïs 1
2772
moussaka moussaka 1
2773
Hamburg (city) Hambourg 1
2774
plates assiettes 1
2775
tower tour 1
2776
forehead front 1
2777
light (feminine singular) légère 1
2778
hamsters hamsters 1
2779
impressive (feminine) impressionnante 1
2780
place endroit 1
2781
Kimiko (girl’s name) Kimiko 1
2782
to spend dépenser 1
2783
grandson petit-fils 1
2784
come back rentrons 1
2785
entertainment; amusement divertissement 1
2786
to modify modifier 1
2787
unemployment chômage 1
2788
sociology sociologie 1
2789
will fall (3rd person singular) tombera 1
2790
boots bottes 1
2791
struggle; fight lutte 1
2792
evenings soirées 1
2793
cherries cerises 1
2794
dairy laitiers 1
2795
French (feminine plural) françaises 1
2796
put mets 1
2797
doughnut beignet 1
2798
key touche 1
2799
raises; is raising; rises; is rising lève 1
2800
sentences phrases 1