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French animal vocabulary

30 words with English translations. 26 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
26in the top 5,000
Frenchlanguage
WordEnglishHow common
le chiendog#511 0.023% of speech
le chatcat#1191 0.007% of speech
le oiseaubird#1633 0.009% of speech
le poissonfish#1298 0.006% of speech
le chevalhorse#898 0.014% of speech
la vachecow#1789 0.004% of speech
le cochonpig#2375 0.003% of speech
le moutonsheep#260 0.036% of speech
la poulechicken#2404 0.003% of speech
le canardduck#3056 0.001% of speech
le lionlionoutside the top 5,000
le tigretigeroutside the top 5,000
le éléphantelephantoutside the top 5,000
la girafegiraffe#3599 0.005% of speech
le oursbear#1716 0.005% of speech
le singemonkey#2211 0.004% of speech
le serpentsnake#2363 0.003% of speech
la tortueturtle#3610 0.004% of speech
le lapinrabbit#2013 0.004% of speech
le loupwolf#2131 0.004% of speech
le renardfox#3572 0.007% of speech
la sourismouse#1658 0.005% of speech
le écureuilsquirrel#3571 0.007% of speech
le crabecrab#3062 0.002% of speech
le dauphindolphin#3616 0.004% of speech
le requinshark#304 0.029% of speech
la baleinewhale#3615 0.004% of speech
la grenouillefrogoutside the top 5,000
le hibouowl#3584 0.006% of speech
le aigleeagle#3585 0.006% of speech

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