Forrest Gump — Top 100 Words

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Forrest Gump is an excellent film for English learners because it includes common everyday vocabulary at all CEFR levels. You will hear basic A1-A2 words like get, walk, die, leave, tired, miss, promise, share, and phrases such as come back, get back, get in, go to bed, and work out. At B1-B2 level, you will encounter figure out, check out, shoot, ruin, and a whole bunch of. More advanced C1 expressions include brutalize and the idiom jump up and bite. Major characters like Forrest Gump, Jenny Curran, Lieutenant Dan Taylor, Bubba Blue, and Mrs. Gump use these words in natural, memorable conversations, making the show a rich resource for learners.

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This film is best suited for A2 to B2 learners who want to move from basic understanding to more natural, conversational English. Advanced learners will also benefit from the idiomatic and culturally specific phrases.

#	Word / Phrase	Level	Count
1	come back	A2	3	+
2	get	A2	2	+
3	get back	B1	2	+
4	get in	A2	2	+
5	brutalize	C1	2	+
6	die	B1	2	+
7	leave	A2	2	+
8	walk	A2	2	+
9	figure out	B1	2	+
10	jump up and bite	B2	2	+
11	check out	B1	2	+
12	a whole bunch of	B1	2	+
13	go to bed	A2	2	+
14	work out	B1	2	+
15	shoot	B1	2	+
16	miss	A2	2	+
17	promise	B1	2	+
18	share	B1	2	+
19	ruin	B1	2	+
20	tired	B1	1	+
21	sink boat	B1	1	+
22	bless America	B1	1	+
23	be all right	A2	1	+
24	in trouble	B1	1	+
25	congratulations	A2	1	+
26	tell about	A2	1	+
27	sick	A2	1	+
28	whopper	B2	1	+
29	shrimp boat captain	B2	1	+
30	come natural to	B2	1	+
31	know	B2	1	+
32	shrimp boat	B1	1	+
33	turn into	B1	1	+
34	ride around	B1	1	+
35	sparkle	B1	1	+
36	get invested	B2	1	+
37	together we stand	B2	1	+
38	crowded	B2	1	+
39	look alive	B2	1	+
40	put together	B1	1	+
41	who in the hell	B2	1	+
42	vacation	A2	1	+
43	part of life	B1	1	+
44	run	A2	1	+
45	maintenance man	B1	1	+
46	imperial	C1	1	+
47	look forward to	B1	1	+
48	shrimp sandwich	B1	1	+
49	at day's end	B2	1	+
50	guess what	A2	1	+
51	get one's act together	C1	1	+
52	white lie	B2	1	+
53	out of one's life	B1	1	+
54	no sweat	B2	1	+
55	round of applause	B1	1	+
56	on a personal level	B2	1	+
57	dangle	B2	1	+
58	comfortable shoes	A2	1	+
59	mess up	B2	1	+
60	shrimp cocktail	B1	1	+
61	not give a shit	B2	1	+
62	that's all one has to say about that	B1	1	+
63	keep dry	B1	1	+
64	scum-sucking maggot	C2	1	+
65	related	B1	1	+
66	pronounce man and wife	B2	1	+
67	get cancer	B1	1	+
68	in the middle of	B1	1	+
69	debt of gratitude	B2	1	+
70	serve	B2	1	+
71	stand up straight	B1	1	+
72	leave behind	B1	1	+
73	read	A2	1	+
74	make a trip up to heaven	B2	1	+
75	figure	B1	1	+
76	shrimping business	B2	1	+
77	pan fry	B1	1	+
78	chase off	B1	1	+
79	slow down	B1	1	+
80	run dry	B2	1	+
81	hold	B1	1	+
82	get out of hand	B2	1	+
83	lie on the ground	B1	1	+
84	perform	B1	1	+
85	know any better	B2	1	+
86	fine and dandy	B2	1	+
87	make money off of	B2	1	+
88	get on the wheel	B1	1	+
89	sign autographs	B1	1	+
90	pull out	B1	1	+
91	can't help it	B1	1	+
92	Oval Office	B2	1	+
93	run away	B1	1	+
94	get off work	B1	1	+
95	up and down the coast	B2	1	+
96	get out	A2	1	+
97	forget	B1	1	+
98	trip wire	B2	1	+
99	college degree	B1	1	+
100	some kind of	B1	1	+

* These frequency counts are approximate values based on AI-extracted vocabulary data.