Introduction

More than fifteen years ago, the first edition of this dictionary filled a significant gap as the first major corpus-based frequency dictionary of the French language. Its introduction explained its advantage over similar language-learning resources: while traditional language primers and learners’ dictionaries offer word lists based on intuitive or unverifiable notions of the words most useful for students to acquire, a corpus-based frequency dictionary draws on objective data to introduce words in order of how likely learners are to encounter them in the “real world”. This makes it an ideal resource for expanding vocabulary knowledge, to be used for individual study or as a support for standard classroom curricular materials.