Nom	Cobb_2026
Tags	Vocabulary List
Description	Provides a pedagogically optimized list of nuclear word families for French. Each family includes a base headword and its most frequent inflected and derived forms, selected using corpus-based frequency thresholds to maximize text coverage while minimizing learning burden. The base list contains 3000 word families (25,141 word types), and the nuclearized version contains 2,871 families (10,458 word types) with approximately 90% coverage of pedagogical reading texts. 
Auteurs	Cobb, T., Lindqvist, C., Ramnäs, M.
Site web	https://www.lextutor.ca
Langue	French
Nb Words	10445
Ref	Cobb, T., Lindqvist, C., & Ramnäs, M. (2026). A nuclear families word list for French. The Modern Language Journal. 
Champs Oblig	
Champs
Word	Word
Headword	Headword of the word family (lemma used as family anchor)
List	Frequency band or pedagogical level list identifier
Orthographic_Freq	Orthographic_Frequency
Family_Freq	Summed frequency of all words members from a family in this corpus