There are a total of 1,752 French words compiled in this comprehensive list. The selection includes lemmatized entries such as common nouns, verbs, adjectives, and useful phrases chosen for frequency and pedagogical value.

French words are the lexical units used to express meaning in the French language. They range from single-word items (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs) to common multiword expressions. They cover everyday vocabulary, classroom and professional terms, and culturally specific phrases. Knowledge of these words supports reading, listening, translation, and teaching.

Interesting and little-known facts about French words:
– Major French dictionaries list roughly 100,000–120,000 lemmas, while a fluent speaker’s active vocabulary is typically 20,000–35,000 words.
– Frequency studies show the top 1,000 most common French words account for about 80–90% of tokens in everyday written and spoken language.
– Approximately 45% of English vocabulary derives from French or Latin, which explains many English–French cognates.
– French orthography preserves historical spellings, so many modern pronunciations include silent letters and nasal vowels.
– Corpus projects such as Lexique and Google Ngrams enable ranking by real-world use, guiding practical selection for learners.

Use the A–Z index to jump to each letter’s list, where entries are grouped alphabetically. Columns include Word, Part of speech, Lemma, English translation (1–4 words), short example sentence, frequency rank, audio pronunciation, and CSV download.