Customizable french Word Generator

This is a generator primarily intended for teachers and parents. For each use, it provides 100 words, or fewer, randomly selected. The words selected are French words chosen according to criteria such as difficulty level, initial letter(s), contained letter(s), or ending. A new list is created for each draw. The database contains various words that a student may encounter during their early years of learning.

Customizable Word Generator

Simply choose the parameters and then click "Generate". The generated words can be downloaded as a PDF file by clicking the "Download" button.

Composition of the downloadable word list

This is a list of French words adapted to the school levels of the first years of studying the French language. It consists of over 12,000 words. The words include infinitive and conjugated verbs, singular and plural adjectives, feminine and masculine forms. In fact, for one adjective, you can find all its forms, and for another, you may find only one form. The list contains French words in the form they are used in school.

Important note: The list is not exhaustive of all words and is not a list drawn from a dictionary. Indeed, several "adult" words are absent, such as: sexy, sexuality, rape, inflation, recession, menstruation, hormone, Christianity, Islam, Jesus,...

Nature of the generated words

This application randomly generates 100 words. If a search yields 800 results, then it is highly likely that the list generated after the second draw will be different from the first list, even if the same criteria are used. The limit of 100 was set for technical reasons only.

How to search for French words

Searching for French words starting with

Enter one or more letters.
Example 1: If you search for words starting with "b", you get: boutique - ballons - bavard - blanche - briller - barre - bagages ..

Example 2: If you search for words starting with "br", you get: brillait - briser - brosse - brûler - brins - brave - brousse..

Searching for French words ending with

Enter one or more letters.
Example 1: If you search for words ending with "l", you get: métal - hôtel - calcul - vol - gel - verbal ..

Example 2: If you search for words ending with "et", you get: inquiet - chalet - met - tabouret - muguet - sujet - minet - muet ..

Searching for French words containing

Enter one or more letters. This allows you to work on particular letters or syllables ...
Example 1: If you search for words containing "ç", you get: commençant - garçons - leçons - reçut - maçon ...

Example 2: If you search for words containing "ein", you get: éteindre - peine - ceinture - peinture - plein - atteint - frein - reine...

Accents

We know that in French, generally the presence or absence of an accent can change the meaning of the word. For example, "tache" and "tâche" are different, and "du" and "dû" are different. For this reason, there are two types of searches in this generator.

If the "ignore accents" box is checked (default choice): In the search, "e" is considered equal to "é" and "o" is considered equal to "ô". So if you search for a word starting with "e", you find: étage - épicier - excellent - existait - étonné ....

If the "ignore accents" box is not checked: In the search, "e" is different from "é" and "o" is different from "ô". So if you search for a word starting with "e", you find: entrez - en - esprit - exacte - et - emploi - espoire but you do not find "école".

Combined criteria

You can perform a search combining several criteria

Example 1: If you search for words starting with "b", ending with "t" and containing "a", you get: brillant - battent - brûlant - brillait - battait - bat ...

Searching for French words by difficulty

There are 5 levels of difficulty: Each level represents one school year. The words are classified by frequency in the school curriculum.
Level 1: Words that can be seen at the beginning of learning French.
Level 5: Words that can be seen after a few years of learning French. These are rarer words in schools but can be encountered ...

Examples of randomly drawn words from level 1: - est - figure - cavalier - parachute - placer - perdue - pouvoir - calcule - roulait - maison - renseignement - clocher - vers - rousse - tellement

Examples of randomly drawn words from level 5: soulevez - peuplée - silicose - ultraviolette - étale - griotte - enfoncerons - larguer - vaquaient - infructueux - théâtral - bâillé - anatomie....

For each search, you can choose between:
- Equal: in this case, you choose only one level. If you set it to 5, then you will search only in level 5.
- Less than or equal to: in this case, you search in the indicated level and the lower levels. If set to less than or equal to 4, then you will search in the list of levels 4, 3, 2, and 1.
- Greater than or equal to: in this case, you search in the indicated level and the higher levels. If set to greater than or equal to 3, then you will search in the list of levels 3, 4, and 5.

Length of words

This involves searching for words of a specific length, less than a specific length, or greater than a length. For example, if you search for words with a length of 3 letters, you will find: gaz - six - âge - feu - eus - qui - met - tir - dit - ans - rit - pic

Searching for French words according to grammatical class

You can choose between searching in all categories, one single category, or a few. The available categories are: adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs, Others (pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, determiners)

Searching for French words according to the number of syllables

This involves searching for words that contain a determined number of syllables, less than or greater than a number of syllables. For example, if you search for words with 3 syllables, you will find: enlever / ensuite / calcule / magique / installer / regardé

Displaying results in syllables

If the "Display syllables" box is checked, then the words will be divided into syllables like this: re-gar-dant / ou-ver-te / sur-pri-se / ad-jec-tif / ar-ri-vés