I do not know about “offline” dictionaries but for online services
- jpdb.io gives you the “top X” info on the right
- You can setup Yomitan with a frequency dictionary
Recommended frequency dictionaries
Yomitan supports the use of frequency dictionaries that tell you how common a word is.
JPDB - A frequency list made from jpdb.io, which is a site that has analyzed many light novels, visual novels, anime and j-drama. In turn, this is a frequency list from Japanese fictional media.
CC100 - Frequency list of corpus data from Japanese internet. Formal words will appear more common in this frequency list . Example: 審議会 (council) is 9733 frequency on CC100 and 58730 on JPDB.
What is a common word?
Very common: 1-10,000
Commmon: 10,001-20,000
Fairly common: 20,001-30,000
Kind of uncommon: 30,001-40,000
Uncommon: 40,001-50,000
Rare: 50,001-80,000
Natives-probably-don’t-know-it-level: 80,000+
Also the Userscript
Uses several frequency list but here consulting them though the right tooling is the challenge.