French reference

French school vocabulary

30 words with English translations. 27 of them appear in the 5,000 most common French words, and the table shows exactly where each one ranks — so you can learn the ones you will actually hear first.

30words
27in the top 5,000
Frenchlanguage
WordEnglishHow common
la écoleschool#373 0.023% of speech
le collègecollege#4777 0.002% of speech
la universitéuniversity#1197 0.007% of speech
le étudiantstudent#2121 0.007% of speech
le maîtreteacher#623 0.013% of speech
le professeurteacher#771 0.010% of speech
la classeclass#799 0.010% of speech
la salle de classeclassroomoutside the top 5,000
le tableaublackboard#1756 0.004% of speech
le bureaudesk#356 0.025% of speech
le crayonpencil#3206 0.003% of speech
le stylopen#3205 0.002% of speech
le cahiernotebook#3207 0.003% of speech
le livrebook#401 0.021% of speech
le sac à dosbackpackoutside the top 5,000
le devoirhomework#48 0.371% of speech
le examentest#1718 0.005% of speech
la leçonlesson#1626 0.005% of speech
la matièresubject#2443 0.003% of speech
le horaireschedule#3348 0.002% of speech
la bibliothèquelibrary#2277 0.003% of speech
le laboratoirelab#3682 0.002% of speech
la récréationrecess#4891 0.001% of speech
le niveaugrade#1004 0.008% of speech
le diplômediploma#4624 0.002% of speech
la notequalification#1548 0.010% of speech
la règlerule#962 0.014% of speech
la gommeeraser#3208 0.001% of speech
le marqueurmarkeroutside the top 5,000
la cartemap#603 0.021% of speech

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