For Spanish, might look at the "Frequency Dictionary of Spanish (Core Vocabulary for Learners)", which will be published in 3-4 weeks by Routledge (as part of their new series of frequency dictionaries). Based on 20 million word corpus, equally divided between spoken, fiction, and non-fiction. Top 5000 lemma, English glosses, sample sentences from corpus, indications of register differences, etc etc.
For English, might try (among others):
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/bncfreq/
http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/~Adam.Kilgarriff/bnc-readme.html
Also, you might try http://view.byu.edu -- frequency lists from the BNC by register, POS, etc -- fully searchable.
Best,
Mark Davies
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Mark Davies
Assoc. Prof., Linguistics
Brigham Young University
(phone) 801-422-9168 / (fax) 801-422-0906
http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu
** Corpus design and use // Linguistic databases **
** Historical linguistics // Language variation **
** English, Spanish, and Portuguese **
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