Moby Multiple Language Lists of Common Words

This is a monster of a resource: hundreds of thousands of words across five languages, compiled into accessible reference lists. The French section alone contains over 138,000 entries; German tops 160,000. Japanese, Italian, and Spanish add hundreds of thousands more. What makes this work remarkable is not just its scale but its utility. Originally created as part of the Moby lexical project and released into the public domain, these lists serve anyone who needs comprehensive vocabulary coverage: translators building bilingual databases, linguists studying word frequency, programmers developing language processing tools, or polyglots constructing their own study materials. The format is deliberately plain text, stripped of unnecessary formatting so the data remains portable and searchable. There is no narrative here, no argument to follow, just pure lexical raw material waiting to be used. For language learners who have exhausted basic frequency lists and need the next layer of vocabulary, or for anyone building linguistic resources, this compilation offers raw material that would take decades to assemble manually. It is less a book to read than a tool to use.