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by jaynos 4445 days ago
Self reply, I hope that's okay.

I looked into this more (had an urge to learn Spanish today). Frequency dictionaries might be a good place to start. Here's the Spanish one I found [1]. It's a dictionary sorted by frequency of use (in a 20 million word text survey) instead of alphabetically. I imagine you can find a similar dictionary for other languages.

[1] http://speak-spanish.ru/wp-content/uploads/A-FreDictSpan.pdf