Ways to use this list
- Beat your streak: give the English meaning before the wheel stops, and count how many you can answer in a row without a miss.
- Masculine or feminine: read out a noun without its article and pupils hold up a card marked M or F before you check the list.
- Pronunciation practice: spin until you land on a tricky sound such as la sœur, l'œil or la fenêtre, then repeat it after an audio dictionary.
- Café role play: press Food, spin three items and order them politely using "je voudrais" and "s'il vous plaît".
- Family trip prep: spin five words a day in the week before a holiday in France, Belgium, Switzerland or Quebec.
Press Spin the wheel, tap the game or press the Space bar. Change the list in the box as you
like: add your own, delete what doesn't suit you, or write *2 after an entry to give it double the
chance. The game buttons switch the same list to a duck race, hat, claw machine and more.
The full list (100 entries)
- bonjour – hello, good morning
- au revoir – goodbye
- salut – hi, bye (informal)
- merci – thank you
- s'il vous plaît – please
- oui – yes
- non – no
- pardon – sorry, excuse me
- bonne nuit – good night
- de rien – you're welcome
- la mère – the mother
- le père – the father
- le frère – the brother
- la sœur – the sister
- le grand-père – the grandfather
- la grand-mère – the grandmother
- l'ami (m) – the friend (male)
- l'amie (f) – the friend (female)
- le garçon – the boy
- la fille – the girl, the daughter
- le chien – the dog
- le chat – the cat
- l'oiseau (m) – the bird
- le poisson – the fish
- le cheval – the horse
- la vache – the cow
- la souris – the mouse
- le lapin – the rabbit
- le papillon – the butterfly
- le cochon – the pig
- le canard – the duck
- la tortue – the turtle, the tortoise
- l'eau (f) – the water
- le lait – the milk
- le pain – the bread
- le fromage – the cheese
- la pomme – the apple
- la banane – the banana
- la fraise – the strawberry
- l'œuf (m) – the egg
- le poulet – the chicken
- la soupe – the soup
- le gâteau – the cake
- la glace – the ice cream
- la maison – the house
- l'école (f) – the school
- le livre – the book
- la table – the table
- la chaise – the chair
- la porte – the door
- la fenêtre – the window
- le lit – the bed
- le crayon – the pencil
- le stylo – the pen
- la cuisine – the kitchen
- la voiture – the car
- le soleil – the sun
- la lune – the moon
- l'étoile (f) – the star
- l'arbre (m) – the tree
- la fleur – the flower
- la mer – the sea
- la plage – the beach
- la pluie – the rain
- la neige – the snow
- le ciel – the sky
- la tête – the head
- la main – the hand
- le pied – the foot
- l'œil (m) – the eye
- la bouche – the mouth
- les cheveux – the hair (always plural)
- rouge – red
- bleu – blue
- vert – green
- jaune – yellow
- noir – black
- blanc – white
- rose – pink
- gris – grey
- grand – big, tall
- petit – small
- content – happy, pleased
- triste – sad
- beau – beautiful, handsome
- nouveau – new
- chaud – hot
- froid – cold
- parler – to speak
- manger – to eat
- boire – to drink
- jouer – to play
- lire – to read
- écrire – to write
- dormir – to sleep
- aimer – to like, to love
- aujourd'hui – today
- demain – tomorrow
- hier – yesterday
- maintenant – now
Questions people ask
Why do some French words start with l' instead of le or la?
Le and la shorten to l' before a vowel sound or a silent h, so it is l'école, not la école. That hides the gender, which is why the full list marks those words (m) or (f).
What do the accents on French words do?
They change the sound or tell two words apart. É (école) sounds close to "ay", è and ê (mère, fenêtre) sound like the "e" in "bed", and ç (garçon) sounds like an "s". French teachers count a missing accent as a spelling mistake.
Why is hair plural in French?
French talks about your hair as many hairs: les cheveux. Un cheveu means one single hair. So "I have brown hair" becomes "j'ai les cheveux bruns".
Is there a Spanish or German version of this list?
Yes: the Spanish word generator and the German word generator use the same kind of beginner list, so you can compare how three languages name the same things.