Top 100 English words French people use on a daily basis
French people know way more English words than they think! In fact, they use them on a daily basis. Sometimes the meaning differs from one language to another. English Speakers, you already speak a little bit of French ! We compiled for you a list of the top 100 most commonly-used English words in the French language.
Babyfoot = Foosball, table football
Bacon
Barbecue
Barman
Basket = basketball
Baskets = sneakers
Best of
Best seller
Bluff = to fake something
Boss
Boycott
Brushing
Bug = when the computer is not working (not an insect!)
Bungalow
Business
Camping = a campsite
Cash
CD
Challenge
Chewing-gum
Clown
Cocktail
Coming-out
Cool
Cosy
Crash
Dealer
Dressing = a dressing room
Fair-play = honesty, loyalty
Fast-food
Feeling = “avoir un bon feeling” = not an emotion, but a good first impression
Ferry = Ferry boat
Flirt = seduction game
Foot = Football
Footing = “faire un footing” means to jog
Forcing = faire du forcing means to put on pressure
Free-Lance = an entrepreneur (which is a French word used in English, by the way!)
Gang
Gentleman
Golf
Hall
Hamburger
Has Been = Outdated
Hobby
Hippie
Iceberg
Interview – only for interviewing people (artists, professionnals) , not for job interviews
Job
Jogging = jog
Label
Leader
Leggings
Lifting = A face-lift
Look – your physical appearance (the clothes you’re wearing), the way you look
Magazine
Management
Marketing
Match – a (football / basketball / any other sport) game
Milk Shake
One-man show
Overdose
Parking = A parking lot
Piercing
Planning = a schedule
Play back
Pressing
Pub
Puzzle
Remake
Rugby
Sandwich
Scoop
Sexy
Shooting – A photo shoot
Shopping
Short = Shorts
Show
Skateboard
Sketch
Smocking = A suit, a tuxedo
Smoothie
Snack
Snowboard
Software
Spam
Sprint – run super fast
Sponsor
Star – a “people”
Steak
Stop / Faire du stop
Stress
Surf
Talkie walkie
Test
Toast = can both be a piece of bread and when people raise their glasses to someone
T-shirt
Volley = volleyball
Web – The Internet
Weekend = end of the week
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Community Talk
Do you know any other English words used by French people ?