Most Common French Words

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Start learning French or just satisfy your curiosity with this list of the most common French words, with links to detailed lessons.

1.	le, la, l’ les	definite articles	the
2.	de, d’	preposition	of, from, about
3.	être	verb	to be
4.	un, une	indefinite articles numbers	a, an one
5.	avoir	verb	to have
6.	il	subject pronoun	he, it

7.	ne	negative particle	~not
8.	ce, c’ (c’est)	indefinite demonstrative pronoun	it, this, that (it is)
9.	à	preposition	to, at, in
10.	et	coordinating conjunction	and
11.	je, j’	subject pronoun	I
12.	pas	negative adverb	not
13.	en	preposition	to, in, at
14.	on	subject pronoun	one, we, they
15.	que, qu’	subordinating conjunction	that
16.	vous	personal pronoun	you
17.	faire	verb	to do, to make
18.	pour	preposition	for, in order to
19.	ça	indefinite demonstrative pronoun	this, that
20.	oui	answering questions	yes
21.	dans	preposition	in, into
22.	qui	interrogative pronoun relative pronoun	who, whom who, what
23.	mais	coordinating conjunction	but
24.	se, s’	reflexive pronoun	himself, herself, itself, oneself, themselves
25.	le, la, l’ les	direct object pronouns	it them

Notes

• I combined different forms (masculine, feminine, plural, contractions) of the same word into a single entry.
• Whenever possible, I kept homographs with different grammatical functions separate.

Sources

There are numerous "most common French words" lists out there, none of which I entirely agree with. They vary greatly due to the source documents used in the determination, so to create this list, I consulted three sources and combined / sorted them into what makes the most sense to me.

1. French Language Daily Most Common French Words
2. Memrise Most Common French Words
3. Worldlex_FR

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