About the Random French Word Generator
Ninety high frequency French words sit behind this generator, and each one comes with its English meaning in brackets so a draw is immediately useful to a learner. Nouns keep their article, which is the single most useful thing a beginner list can do: seeing la fenetre rather than fenetre teaches the gender at the same time as the word, and gender is where most early mistakes come from.
The vocabulary is split across everyday nouns, the twenty verbs that carry most conversation, common adjectives and a few adverbs. Verbs appear in the infinitive with a gloss such as attendre (to wait), so they slot straight into a conjugation exercise. Nothing here is a rare literary term, because a random word is only worth drilling if you will meet it again this week.
A ten word draw makes a tidy flashcard batch, and a two word draw makes a sentence building challenge. Accents are written in plain ASCII so the text pastes into any flashcard app or spreadsheet without encoding trouble. Once you have the list, the Case Converter tidies capitalisation for a printed sheet, and the Shuffle Lines tool reorders a saved deck before a revision session.
How to use
- Choose how many words you want, ten is a comfortable flashcard batch.
- Press Generate to draw French words with their English gloss.
- Copy the pair list straight into your flashcard app or a two column sheet.
- Reroll for a new batch whenever the current set feels familiar.
Common questions
- Why do nouns include le or la?
- Because gender has to be learned with the word. Seeing le jardin rather than jardin saves relearning the article later.
- Are the words for beginners or advanced learners?
- They sit at beginner to lower intermediate level, chosen for frequency so the effort of memorising pays off quickly.
- Why are the accents missing?
- Words are written without diacritics so they paste cleanly into any app. Add the accents back when you write them out by hand.
- Can I make flashcards from the output?
- Yes. Most flashcard apps import two columns, so replace the brackets with a tab or comma and load the file.