Yes! I did maybe half, but then ran out of time. I’ve been too busy with other commitments recently, but it’s definitely in the pipeline!

Hm.. I’m afraid I still don’t see what the purpose of this would be. If you take the list I have produced and you add HSK back in (which is a trivial copy and paste), don’t you get exactly what you describe? Step 3 has almost no impact on HSK words anyway, the whole point of step 3 was to remove things that could have been on HSK but aren’t because the authors didn’t consider them eligible candidates.

In short, it seems to me that if you remove step 2 in the process, the only difference is that step 3 doesn’t get applied to the HSK words, but step3 wouldn’t have any effect on the HSK words anyway, no?

1. Started with the SUBTLEX-CH list
2. Removed the actual HSK words
3. Removed additional entries based on your stated criteria
4. Were left with the words in this article that are “missing” from HSK

What I’m asking is, can we skip step 2? Essentially, a version of SUBTLEX-CH refined according to your criteria, but with any HSK words still included.

Basically, I feel it would be very useful to have a frequency list that has been edited according to an expert (you). Your criteria above makes a lot of sense and I believe this would be a very efficient study tool if it was applied to the frequency list independently from the idea of what’s missing from HSK. I hope this makes sense, it’s been a difficult idea to explain via text! Thanks again.

I’m not sure I understand what you mean! What I did here was to compare a frequency list with HSK and then do some analysis to check what high-frequency words were either delayed or left out of HSK. What you ask for would simply be a frequency list. I did not try to subjectively decide what words are useful! The only subjective parts here are 1) my judgement of what is a word and 2) the grouping of words into categories (such as profanity, foreign things, etc.).

Is there a version of this list that is independent from the HSK? Meaning, you distilled the frequency list down to what you thought are the most useful entries, but because the article is about what’s missing from HSK, you also removed the words occurring in HSK. So is there a version of your filtered list with the HSK words still included? I think this would be VERY useful to those wanting to make the most of the frequency list who are also not HSK learners.

Thanks again!

Good catch! I’ve updated it to say 408 now, thanks!

As an alternative to the above, I use the following page to generate word lists to import into Anki:

https://www.purpleculture.net/vocabulary-list-generator/

I have now published a follow-up article about TOCFL! I used a different frequency list, but the principles remain the same. It’s interesting that for many words with different regional versions, such as 腳踏車/自行車, both versions are listed on the test. You can check the article here: https://www.hackingchinese.com/what-important-words-are-missing-from-tocfl/