Is there any way to see the "top 1000 words lists?"

Bunpro
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For example, when you look at vocabulary in Bunpro is will say that the word is “anime top 1000” or “novels top 2000” or something like that. I think having a list like that which ranked words by how common they are used would be incredibly useful.

I would love to be able to pull up those lists for the 1000 or 2000 most popular words in anime (for example) and so I can then go down the list form most common to least common and check if I already know them or learn them in that order.

Learning 2000 words that are rarely used almost doesn’t help at all, but learning the 2000 most common words would give you a major boost towards understanding and speaking right away.

I think a lot of language learning systems / programs / textbooks fail because they teach a random assortment of words that includes a lot of things rarely used in daily life or in media, which makes people feel like they aren’t getting anywhere and makes it take much longer to be able to use the language.

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#2

If you join the beta program you can get the access to the community decks, with among them the official Bunpro’s Core 2k and 4k decks which I really recommend. But, I agree this would be a really nice feature to have.

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#3

jpdb.io is a good resource for frequency. Just look up a word and hover over the “top #” at the top right to see the frequency in different media. A word like 綺麗, for example, has wildly differing frequencies depending on the form of media. You can also look in that word’s “Used in” page at the bottom right for more details about where that word is found.

If you want to get really specific, they also have a large database of media with vocabulary lists and difficulty ratings for each series (anime difficulty list). Its great for finding content that is at your difficulty and with vocab that you know. They have things like anime, novels, and live action. Sadly, there is no manga :cry:

I haven’t used it myself much, but I’ve heard good things about it, especially for finding comprehensible content for immersion.

There are also frequency dictionaries for yomitan. You can find some on this Github page, which includes JPDB v2.2

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