celui-ci
celui-ci is a French pronoun meaning this one. It is the 530th most common word in French, which puts it at CEFR level A1. It turns up in about 1 in 316 sentences of real French prose.
530
rank
of 5,000
A1
CEFR level
by frequency
1 in 316
sentences
contain it
70.3%
running total
of a book covered
Running total is cumulative: knowing celui-ci and every French word above it covers 70.3% of the running words in a real book.
Is celui-ci worth learning now?
Yes - celui-ci 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
- doux #526 - sweet
- vue #527 - sight
- voyage #528 - trip, journey, voyage
- fête #529 - winter holidays
- colère #531 - anger, rage
- mur #532 - wall
- drôle #533 - funny, amusing
- dessus #534 - on, on top of
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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 celui-ci 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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