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
3681
curly bracket ({) accolade 1
3682
planks; boards planches 1
3683
step étape 1
3684
Asia Asie 1
3685
mislead; are misleading; deceive; are deceiving (3rd person plural) trompent 1
3686
Moroccan (singular, feminine) marocaine 1
3687
forks fourchettes 1
3688
serve; are serving (3rd person plural) servent 1
3689
helps; is helping aide 1
3690
blood; blood-red (masculine singular) sanguin 1
3691
Gustave (boy’s name) Gustave 1
3692
wavy (masculine plural) ondulés 1
3693
walked marché 1
3694
to them leur 1
3695
to cut couper 1
3696
stadium stade 1
3697
to move house déménager 1
3698
actor acteur 1
3699
inheritance héritage 1
3700
to kiss embrasser 1
3701
arts arts 1
3702
to receive (gift) recevoir 1
3703
fashion fashion 1
3704
commercial publicité 1
3705
prays; is praying prie 1
3706
jewel bijou 1
3707
happily; merrily joyeusement 1
3708
fat grasse 1
3709
used (masculine plural) utilisés 1
3710
ignore ignore 1
3711
certain people; certain places (feminine plural) certaines 1
3712
describe décrivez 1
3713
here you go; there tiens 1
3714
left partit 1
3715
footprints empreintes 1
3716
zero nulle 1
3717
have lunch; are having lunch déjeunons 1
3718
stops cesse 1
3719
dairy (from the word for milk) laiterie 1
3720
train; practice entraine 1