book

Pronunciation: [buk]

Average Rank: 430

Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICT

n. 书, 书籍, 帐簿, 名册, 工作簿 v. 登记, 预订 [计] 工作簿

Detailed Explanations:
  • n. a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together)
  • n. physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together
  • n. a collection of playing cards satisfying the rules of a card game
  • n. a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made
ECDICT Dictionary Data
Collins Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Oxford 3000
Difficulty: BASIC
Exam Tags: zk gk ielts
Word Forms:
Plural: books
Past Participle: booked
Past: booked
Present Participle: booking
3rd Person: books

Word Frequency Rankings

Wikipedia
#275

Formal, encyclopedic, and academic usage

Percentile: 97.2% (Top 97.2% most frequent)
97.2%

Out of 10,000 words in the Wikipedia corpus

TV & Movie Scripts
#560

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 94.4% (Top 94.4% most frequent)
94.4%

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

Project Gutenberg
#455

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 95.5% (Top 95.5% most frequent)
95.5%

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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