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A vocabulary of just 600 words? Whoa. That's not much better than "point and grunt". Come to think of it, that's probably how big my active German vocabulary is these days... Anyway, you might want to check out Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary, or at least the foreword. They go through staggering amounts of written English to sort out what words are mostly used, and how they are used.
On a side note, a while ago I found a webpage where you could submit a piece of your writing and it would guess your gender based on what words and wordings you used. Very amusing, I wish I could find it again.
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