Nayr's Core5000 deck (Frequency Dictionary of Japanese)

aldebrn Wrote:I am slowly coming around to the RTK Lite idea, so I thought to use this Core5000 deck to make an RTKLite list, as it's source frequency dictionary is based on the latest Japanese corpus research.

There's 1503 kanji that appear in Core5000's "word" field. (…)

I am a bit surprised by those numbers. Does this mean that 5000 words is far from enough to include most of the usual vocabulary, or that the official list of over 2000 kanji includes several hundred of unfrequent characters (somehow supporting the RTK-lite idea)?

How far should one go in the word frequency list to capture all, or perhaps 95% of the jouyou kanji?