Check a French text: vocabulary and level
Paste in a French text. This page holds it up against its 18269 words and tells you how many of them sit at which level — and which words do not appear here at all. Everything runs in your browser; the text never leaves your device.
What this analysis tells you — and what it does not
“Not on this site” does not mean “hard”. Names, technical terms, place names and everything there is no word list for here end up in the same place. The list is a suggestion for looking things up, not an inventory of your gaps.
The estimated level is the one at which 95 % of the words are covered — not the highest one that occurs. A single word from a high level does not make a text of that level. 95 % is the threshold from which a text can be read without looking something up every third sentence.
Inflected forms are recognised. They are generated when this site is built, not guessed in the browser; which ones they are is set out in tools/textindex.py.
Example sentences
A1 Je suis malade.I am ill.
A1 Nous allons au parc.We are going to the park.
A2 J’ai invité les voisins.I invited the neighbours.
A2 La soupe est un peu trop salée.The soup is a little too salty.
B1 Cet examen vaut six crédits.This examination is worth six credits.
B1 La pollution de l’air a diminué ces dernières années.Air pollution has fallen in recent years.
B2 La somme est dérisoire.The sum is derisory.
B2 Le vélo elliptique ménage les genoux.The cross-trainer is easy on the knees.
C1 L’aubier reste clair et retient l’eau.The sapwood stays pale and holds water.
C1 Il tressaute à chaque coup de klaxon.He twitches at every blast of a horn.
C2 La migration de format se répète à chaque génération de logiciels.Format migration comes round again with every generation of software.
C2 Il esquive toute discussion sur l’argent.He dodges any discussion about money.