we would like to come up with a list of most commonly used french /
german / swedish / spanish / dutch words in the form of a downloadable
file. These lists, each of which will be several thousand words long,
are to be integrated into a software application which performs a
lookup against them.

Hi kentert,

Here you go - 

FRENCH

Cotse (The Church of the Swimming Elephant):
http://www.cotse.com/wordlists/french

Oxford:
ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/wordlists/french/

French Word Frequency List zip file:
http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/data/DiploFreq.ZIP
http://helmer.aksis.uib.no/corpora/1999-2/0030.html

Listes de mots communs:
http://abu.cnam.fr/DICO/mots-communs.html

>>>>>>>>>

GERMAN

Cotse:
http://www.cotse.com/wordlists/german

Oxford:
ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/wordlists/german/

Wortschatz: Click on "Wortlisten" in left column":
Download 100, 1000, or 10,000 Top Words in: German 
http://wortschatz.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/index.html

>>>>>>>>>

SWEDISH

Cotse:
http://www.cotse.com/wordlists/swedish

Oxford:
ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/wordlists/swedish/

>>>>>>>>>

SPANISH

Cotse:
http://www.cotse.com/wordlists/spanish

Oxford:
ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/wordlists/spanish/

>>>>>>>>>

DUTCH

Cotse:
http://www.cotse.com/wordlists/dutch

Oxford:
ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/wordlists/dutch/

Wortschatz: Click on "Wortlisten" in left column":
Download 100, 1000, or 10,000 Top Words in: Dutch
http://wortschatz.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/index.html

>>>>>>>>

Word Lists:
ftp://clr.nmsu.edu/CLR/lexica/wordlists/


I hope I've been able to find suitable lists for you. If not, or if
you have any questions, please post a clarification request before
closing/rating my answer.

Thank you,
hummer

Google Search Terms Used

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Wortlisten
word frequency lists
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"word frequency" german
"word frequency" spanish
"word frequency" dutch
"word frequency" swedish
german "most common words"

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Request for Answer Clarification by kentert-ga on 28 Apr 2004 07:19 PDT

Thanks for this - I think that what we are looking for is a little bit
different although the problem is no doubt my phrasing of the
question. I believe that the term appropriate for the list we are
looking for is a STOP LIST - so really what we are looking for is the
most extensive stop list in each of the languages. Possible?

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Clarification of Answer by hummer-ga on 28 Apr 2004 08:49 PDT

Hi kentert,

Please let me know if any of these links are helpful:

FRENCH

French Stop list from Jean.Veronis@lpl.univ-aix.fr
http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/data/DiploFreq.ZIP

A French stop word list
http://www.snowball.tartarus.org/french/stop.txt

SPANISH
http://www.snowball.tartarus.org/spanish/stop.txt

GERMAN
http://www.snowball.tartarus.org/german/stop.txt

DUTCH
http://www.snowball.tartarus.org/dutch/stop.txt

SWEDISH
http://www.snowball.tartarus.org/swedish/stop.txt

"Alternatively, the ASPSEEK search engine comes with various stop-word
lists (for French and about 15 other languages). Once you download and
unpack the source code, look in etc/stopwords/"
http://lingo.lancs.ac.uk/devotedto/corpora/software.htm.

ASPEEK: Stopwords:
http://www.aspseek.org/man/aspseek.7.php#lbAL

You could try writing to Patrice Bonhomme. He used to post stop lists
but his loria link seems to be dead.
patrice.bonhomme@loria.fr 
http://www.loria.fr/~bonhomme
http://helmer.aksis.uib.no/corpora/1996-3/0055.html

Regards,
hummer

Thanks very much - very helpful

Thank you, kentert, for the nice note, rating and tip - they are much
appreciated. I'm glad to hear that you can make use of the lists that
I found.  Sincerely, hummer