allowed

Average Rank: 905

Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICT

a. 允许, 容许的

Detailed Explanations:
  • v make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen
  • v consent to, give permission
  • v let have
  • v give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
  • v make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain
  • v allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something
  • v afford possibility
  • v allow the other (baseball) team to score
  • v grant as a discount or in exchange
  • v allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting
ECDICT Dictionary Data
Difficulty: UNKNOWN

Word Forms:
0: allow
1: dp
Past Participle: allowed
Past: allowed

Word Frequency Rankings

Wikipedia
#339

Formal, encyclopedic, and academic usage

Percentile: 96.6% (Top 96.6% most frequent)
96.6%

Out of 10,000 words in the Wikipedia corpus

TV & Movie Scripts
#1536

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 84.6% (Top 84.6% most frequent)
84.6%

Out of 10,000 words in the TV & Movie Scripts corpus

Project Gutenberg
#841

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 91.6% (Top 91.6% most frequent)
91.6%

Out of 10,000 words in the Project Gutenberg corpus

Insights

This word appears in 3 corpus/corpora, showing its usage across academic, conversational, and literary contexts.

Usage pattern: Most frequent in Wikipedia, making it particularly important for that context.