ISO age-graded vocabulary lists



I hope this question is not too far off-topic.

I imagine it would be possible to classify all the words in a
dictionary roughly according to the age by which most "typical
educated native speakers" can be expected to know their meanings.
For example, in English one may classify "house" as a "3-year old
word" and "domicile" as a "15-year old word" (or maybe 20-year
old?)

I realize that this formulation is very imprecise and subject to
a host of objections, but I think the basic idea is not entirely
unreasonable. (In fact I recall seeing, many years ago, one such
classification of English words.)

Is this sort of classification something that one can readily find?
If so, where could I find them? Under what search keyword(s) should
I look? (I am particularly interested in such word lists for
German, French, Russian and Japanese.)

Thanks!

kj

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NOTE: In my address everything before the first period is backwards;
and the last period, and everything after it, should be discarded.
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