Vote now: What’s the best word in the French language

Our readers have nominated their favourites and then whittled them down to a shortlist via a series of daily polls.

So here are the 19 best words and phrases that you have selected over the summer – and now it's time to vote for the overall winner.

Will it be one of the (many) gros mots that readers nominated, one of those words that just trip off the tongue so perfectly or the elegant phrases that French specialises in? The decision is yours!