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
3721
dining car (old fashioned) wagon-restaurant 1
3722
daffodil jonquille 1
3723
vegetable garden potager 1
3724
single (ticket) simple 1
3725
effect effet 1
3726
before; beforehand auparavant 1
3727
BE (abbreviation for Belgium) BE 1
3728
boys garçons 1
3729
goals objectifs 1
3730
dishes plats 1
3731
doorbell sonnette 1
3732
marked (masculine plural) balisés 1
3733
nozzle; head pomme 1
3734
brought (masculine plural) apportés 1
3735
Sandrine (girl’s name) Sandrine 1
3736
greek (masculine) grec 1
3737
important (masculine) important 1
3738
to heat; to warm chauffer 1
3739
primary primaire 1
3740
plants plantes 1
3741
rats rats 1
3742
to remove enlever 1
3743
swims; is swimming nage 1
3744
quiet (plural) calmes 1
3745
to entertain amuser 1
3746
d’Ormesson (surname) d’Ormesson 1
3747
careless (feminine) négligente 1
3748
cyclists cyclistes 1
3749
laundromat laverie 1
3750
pile-ups carambolages 1
3751
mandarin mandarin 1
3752
Inma (girl’s name) Inma 1
3753
twins (female) jumelles 1
3754
romanticism romantisme 1
3755
begins; is beginning commence 1
3756
scarf écharpe 1
3757
confessed avoué 1
3758
reporter reporter 1
3759
forms fiches 1
3760
cover yourself (imperative mode) couvre-toi 1