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
3601
to scare faire peur 0
3602
public (feminine plural) publiques 0
3603
competitor concurrent 0
3604
understand (3rd person plural) comprennent 0
3605
absent (feminine) absente 0
3606
hut cabane 0
3607
pepper mill moulin à poivre 0
3608
to whisk fouetter 0
3609
to rest se reposer 0
3610
comics bandes dessinées 0
3611 summit sommet 0
3612
private (feminine plural) privées 0
3613
seen (masculine plural) vus 0
3614
had (3rd person plural) avaient 0
3615
Hello? (for answering the phone) Allô ? 0
3616
local (feminine) locale 0
3617
funny (masculine) amusant 0
3618
to steal; to rob voler 0
3619
to boil bouillir 0
3620
to sieve tamiser 0
3621
swimsuit maillot de bain 0
3622
natural (masculine) naturel 0
3623
to compromise compromettre 0
3624
common (masculine) courant 0
3625
cost; am costing coûte 0
3626
to get fat grossir 0
3627
smaller plus petit 0
3628
chinese chinoise 0
3629
al dente; ideal cooking amount for pasta al dente 0
3630
rests; is resting repose 0
3631
as well as; together with (before a vowel sound) ainsi qu’ 0
3632
to raise; to rise lever 0
3633
warehouse entrepôt 0
3634
engineer ingénieur 0
3635
to break up rompre 0
3636
to manage gérer 0
3637
to be discouraged se décourager 0
3638
vocal (feminine plural) vocales 0
3639
colourful (feminine) colorée 0
3640
to saw scier 0