QUESTION
I'm looking for a very high quality word frequency list in German. This is a list of how often words are used in the German language.
The best one I have found so far is here: 10,000 words. Unfortunately no details are given on the data source.
Does anybody know of anything any better?
If I was to make my own list, can you suggest a good large source of German language text? Something like the The British National Corpus, but in German?
ANSWER
According to this PDF its pretty much the best and biggest list you can get for free. The PDF looks quite interesting.
On the data source:
Neben Angaben zu absoluter Häufigkeit, Häufigkeitsklassen,Grammatik, Sachgebiet, Kollokationen (häufige Wortkombinationen) usw. findet man hier auch die „Wörter des Tages“, die aktuellsten Begriffe aus Online-Ausgaben von Tageszeitungen. Die Quellen des Wortschatzkorpus basieren vor allem auf (online verfügbaren) Archiven von Zeitungen, aber auch literarische Werke und Fachtexte wurden untersucht.
For german text sources:
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/de
Likely some Desktop Search Engines can index files and show word frequency.
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