Most common words, ranked

The course word lists, ordered by frequency and everyday usefulness, with input from language teachers. Every word has audio and an example sentence, with a PDF and a CSV per list.

LanguageTop 100Top 500Top 1,000
Spanish 100 500 1,000
French 100 500 1,000
Japanese 100 500 1,000
German 100 500 1,000
Korean 100 500 1,000
Italian 100 500 1,000
Chinese 100 500 1,000
Portuguese 100 500 1,000
Russian 100 500 1,000
Turkish 100 500 1,000
Dutch 100 500 1,000
Polish 100 500 1,000
Swedish 100 500 1,000
Greek 100 500 1,000
Serbian 100 500 1,000
Hungarian 100 500 1,000
Czech 100 500 1,000
Arabic 100 500 1,000
Hebrew 100 500 1,000
Romanian 100 500 1,000
Vietnamese 100 500 1,000

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