French and English have hundreds of cognates (words which look and/or are pronounced alike in the two languages), including true (similar meaning), false (different meanings), and semi-false (some similar and some different meanings). My alphabetized list of hundreds of false cognates can be a bit unwieldy, so here is an abridged version of the most common false cognates in French and English.
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