Partial long list of words to learn

[technobabel]

Often we found ourselves wondering if a particular vocab is worth our effort to memorize it. Here comes a nifty web tool for exactly this purpose.
http://www.wordcount.org/main.php
The list of words are horizontal and ranked according to how popular/frequent they appear to be.
But, do not dismiss a word just because it is low ranking.

[Wayne]

savills (86791) goes before homemakers (86792)?

It's hard to belive!

BTW, Conquistador(86800) is a wonderful song by Procal Harum.

[technobabel]

Indeed, the list is more artistic than scientific, nevertheless, it is good enough for its intended purposes and beyond. I surely would like to see a similar list for Chinese.
It is really a good idea to test yourself on the first few thousand words on the list see how good you really are.
Now, who wants to play a game of "English Roulette"?

[Wayne]

Tell us about it!

[technobabel]

start from the very left side of the word-count spectrum, players randomly pick any number from within a range and slowly move to the right in an agreeable pattern or increment. player losses when he or she can not spell, pronounce, define or translate a particular encountered word.

[technobabel]

wordcount in Chinese
http://lingua.mtsu.edu/chinese-computing/statistics/