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The Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group's Japanese-English dictionary. We take none of its definitions — only the frequency tags it carries, which say how common a word is in a newspaper corpus.

A few rows

Chosen from the data, not taken off the top.

  • 新聞

    Band 1 of 48 · the top 500 in print

    Newspaper, which is fittingly what the corpus is made of.

  • 閣議

    Band 2 in print · rank 58,336 in anime

    Cabinet meeting. The register a newspaper corpus sees and a subtitle corpus never will.

What we hold

Words with a frequency band
6,204
Last brought in
todaySep 4, 2026
Their release
1.09

What we take

  • Which frequency band a word falls in, in steps of 500
  • Whether a word is among the commonest 12,000 or 24,000 in print
  • Membership of the standard common-word lists

Terms

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. The credit is a condition of use, and so is sharing any derived data under the same terms. CC BY-SA 4.0