Understanding of 95-98% of a text is normally required for vocabulary to be acquired in context, a level of comprehension typically achieved with a vocabulary of between 7,500 and 9,000 word families. This deck is intended to supplement the existing “5,000 Most Frequent French Words” decks available on Anki Web and help bridge the gap between the vocabulary covered in those existing decks and the level of vocabulary required for comfortable reading of native French texts.
The vocabulary to create this “mid-frequency” deck has been sourced from the Lexique Corpus. First, the Lexique Corpus was filtered to remove duplicates of the 5000 high frequency words appearing in the Routledge Frequency Dictionary of French. Example sentences including 2,500 mid-frequency words from the filtered corpus along with their English translations were then sourced from the Tatoeba database website and audio files for the words and the example sentences were then added using the Awesome TTS Anki add on.