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French food vocabulary

29 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.

29words
26in the top 5,000
Frenchlanguage
WordEnglishHow common
le painbread#1415 0.006% of speech
le fromagecheese#1862 0.004% of speech
le laitmilk#1311 0.006% of speech
la viandemeat#1486 0.005% of speech
le poissonfish#1298 0.006% of speech
le pouletchicken#1511 0.005% of speech
l' œufeggoutside the top 5,000
le rizrice#3405 0.002% of speech
les haricotsbeansoutside the top 5,000
la soupesoup#1976 0.004% of speech
la pommeapple#175 0.057% of speech
la bananebanana#3000 0.008% of speech
l' orangeorange#2479 0.003% of speech
le raisingrape#3005 0.006% of speech
la fraisestrawberry#3001 0.006% of speech
le citronlemon#3006 0.007% of speech
la carottecarrot#3023 0.007% of speech
la pomme de terrepotatooutside the top 5,000
la tomatetomato#3024 0.008% of speech
l' oignononion#3033 0.002% of speech
la laituelettuce#3041 0.002% of speech
le maïscorn#29 0.571% of speech
l' huileoil#2484 0.003% of speech
le sucresugar#1933 0.004% of speech
le selsalt#155 0.068% of speech
le poivrepepper#3275 0.004% of speech
le chocolatchocolate#1677 0.005% of speech
la glaceice cream#1099 0.007% of speech
le gâteaucake#1363 0.006% of speech

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