ami
ami is a French noun meaning friend (one who is affectionately attached to another). It is the 133rd most common word in French, which puts it at CEFR level A1. It turns up in about 1 in 118 sentences of real French prose.
133
rank
of 5,000
A1
CEFR level
by frequency
1 in 118
sentences
contain it
56.2%
running total
of a book covered
Running total is cumulative: knowing ami and every French word above it covers 56.2% of the running words in a real book.
Is ami worth learning now?
Yes - ami is inside the first thousand French words, and those thousand cover 75.99% of the prose in a real book and 81.81% of everyday speech. Words this common are worth far more study time than anything further down the list.
Frequency is the honest guide to order, not to method. A word learned from a list on its own fades; the same word met inside a sentence you wanted to read stays. Check a French text against the CEFR bands to see whether what you are reading is at your level.
French words of the same frequency
- celui #129 - the one
- avant #130 - before
- sortir #131 - to exit, go out, come out
- dieu #132 - a god, male divinity
- depuis #134 - since
- an #135 - year
- main #136 - hand
- madame #137 - a title or form of address for a woman, formerly for a married woman and now commonly for any adult woman regardless ...
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Where this comes from
The rank is measured, not copied: 281 million words of subtitle dialogue for how French is spoken, and 76 public-domain books for how it is written. Conjugations and plurals count towards the word they belong to, so ami is ranked as a word rather than as a spelling. The meaning and part of speech come from Wiktionary. Generated 2026-07-27.
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