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
3001
to discourage décourager 1
3002
marvellous (masculine) merveilleux 1
3003
pebbles cailloux 1
3004
colourful (masculine plural) colorés 1
3005
among parmi 1
3006
ice glace 1
3007
number nombre 1
3008
will be serons 1
3009
lucky veinard 1
3010
give up abandonne 1
3011
bakery boulangerie 1
3012
chickpeas chiches 1
3013
detergent détergent 1
3014
understand (2nd person singular) comprends 1
3015
teaching d’enseignement 1
3016
communication communication 1
3017
pumpkin citrouille 1
3018
eagle d’aigle 1
3019
corn maïs 1
3020
to hear entendre 1
3021
bracket [ ( ] parenthèse 1
3022
doctors médecins 1
3023
shelf d’étagère 1
3024
public (masculine plural) publics 1
3025
to switch off; to turn off éteindre 1
3026
competitors concurrents 1
3027
more encore 1
3028
location; pitch emplacement 1
3029
lunched (masculine singular) déjeuné 1
3030
sweet; candy bonbon 1
3031
perfume parfum 1
3032
traitor traître 1
3033
revolution révolution 1
3034
Bonnevoie (city) Bonnevoie 1
3035
Brel (surname) Brel 1
3036
wanted (3rd person singular, imperfect) voulait 1
3037
divine; heavenly (feminine) divine 1
3038
banknote; bill billet 1
3039
speak; are speaking parlons 1
3040
recording enregistrement 1