5,000 Most Common French Words: Books 1 and 2 Together
This bundle combines French Frequency Dictionary 1 - Essential Vocabulary and French Frequency Dictionary 2 - Intermediate Vocabulary: the 5,000 most common French words, ranked by how often native speakers actually use them, for less than buying the two books separately (€49.95 vs. €59.90).
5,000 words covers approximately 95-96% of everyday spoken and written French; enough to follow most conversations, TV, and news without constant gaps, and to start reading French novels with only occasional lookups.
What's in Each Entry
- English translation
- IPA phonetic transcription
- Part of speech (noun, verb, adjective, etc.), with grammatical gender for nouns
- A French-English example sentence showing the word in context
Words are lemmatized: each entry is the root word, not a separate line for every conjugation. Entries are ranked by real-world frequency, so word #1 is more common than word #2, and so on through word #5,000. Each book also includes an alphabetical index and a breakdown by part of speech for targeted review.
Coverage
- Book 1 (words 1-2,500): CEFR A1-B1, essential starting vocabulary
- Book 2 (words 2,501-5,000): CEFR A2+-B2+, intermediate vocabulary
Delivered as instant-download PDFs, readable on any phone, tablet, or computer with a free PDF reader. Vocabulary is drawn from real French subtitle corpora, not textbook dialogue.
Want to go further? The complete French Frequency Dictionary series covers all 10,000 words across four volumes.