{
  "title": "Petit mot — 2,500 common French words",
  "schema_version": 1,
  "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
  "retrieved": "2026-11-05",
  "method": "Select 2,500 unique useful entries in ascending source word_frequency order with an English translation and French definition. Skip entries without French meanings. These are common curated vocabulary lemmas, not an exhaustive corpus top 2,500. Most conjugated forms are reduced to infinitives. The upstream learning deck omits some function words and uses AI-assisted curation.",
  "sources": [
    {"name": "Language Learning Decks", "url": "https://github.com/vbvss199/Language-Learning-decks", "file": "french/french.json", "license": "MIT", "credit": "Copyright (c) 2025 GENERAL NEURO", "fields": ["french", "english", "article", "part_of_speech", "level", "example_fr", "example_en", "source_frequency_rank"]},
    {"name": "wordfreq", "url": "https://github.com/rspeer/wordfreq", "citation": "Robyn Speer (2022), rspeer/wordfreq v3.0 (v3.0.2), doi:10.5281/zenodo.7199437", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "use": "frequency ranking via Language Learning Decks"},
    {"name": "French Language Tools", "url": "https://github.com/Kartmaan/french-language-tools", "file": "files/dico.csv", "upstream": "https://fr.wiktionary.org", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0 (Wiktionnaire content)", "use": "French definitions extracted from Wiktionnaire"}
  ],
  "changes": "Selected entries; normalized Unicode and case; assigned deck IDs and ranks; combined dictionary meanings and English translations. A small set of common ambiguous senses has original learner-oriented French wording. Individual source links are included in each entry. French meanings and English translations can represent different senses of a polysemous word."
}