Is there a tool to check whether I'm using the top N most common words

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Along the lines of Randall Munroe's tool used to determine whether a word is one of the most common thousand words in English (https://xkcd.com/simplewriter/), I'm wondering if there is a tool that could determine whether a word is one of the most common 2,000 words, or 5,000 words, etc.

legatrix · Answer

If you know a little programming (in R or Python, say), there are very easy ways to do this, which I can describe if you want. Otherwise, try using Find on some of the frequency lists given in this page:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists

Is there a tool to check whether I'm using the top N most common words

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