early

Pronunciation: ['ә:li]

Average Rank: 485

Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICT

a. 早的, 早熟的 adv. 很早, 初

Detailed Explanations:
  • a. at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time
  • a. being or occurring at an early stage of development
  • s. belonging to the distant past
  • s. very young
ECDICT Dictionary Data
Collins Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Oxford 3000
Difficulty: BASIC
Exam Tags: zk gk
Word Forms:
Comparative: earlier
Superlative: earliest

Word Frequency Rankings

Wikipedia
#115

Formal, encyclopedic, and academic usage

Percentile: 98.9% (Top 98.9% most frequent)
98.9%

Out of 10,000 words in the Wikipedia corpus

TV & Movie Scripts
#865

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 91.3% (Top 91.3% most frequent)
91.3%

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

Project Gutenberg
#474

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 95.3% (Top 95.3% most frequent)
95.3%

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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