best

Pronunciation: [best]

Average Rank: 308

Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICT

a. 最好的 adv. 最好地 n. 最好的人

Detailed Explanations:
  • n. the supreme effort one can make
  • n. the person who is most outstanding or excellent; someone who tops all others
  • n. Canadian physiologist (born in the United States) who assisted F. G. Banting in research leading to the discovery of insulin (1899-1978)
ECDICT Dictionary Data
Difficulty: ADVANCED
Exam Tags: ielts
Word Forms:
0: good
1: t
Comparative: best
3rd Person: bests
Past Participle: bested
Present Participle: besting
Past: bested

Word Frequency Rankings

Wikipedia
#417

Formal, encyclopedic, and academic usage

Percentile: 95.8% (Top 95.8% most frequent)
95.8%

Out of 10,000 words in the Wikipedia corpus

TV & Movie Scripts
#258

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 97.4% (Top 97.4% most frequent)
97.4%

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

Project Gutenberg
#249

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 97.5% (Top 97.5% most frequent)
97.5%

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.

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