Quote Originally Posted by Shurick
most common Russian words
In my time, I had made such a list. The only thing, I was making it in the opposite direction - it was a list of 5000 most common English words.
I found it useful. It enabled me to start reading, though with much difficulty at first, English literature in the original.

You can filtered words by the type... verbs, nouns, etc. Is it usefull?
For my list of English words it wasn't a good idea. It is better to become accustomed from the start that in English the same word can often be a noun, a verb and so on.