film

Pronunciation: [film]

Average Rank: 3937

Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICT

n. 软片, 薄膜, 胶卷, 电影 vt. 覆以薄膜, 拍摄 vi. 生薄膜, 拍电影

Detailed Explanations:
  • n. a medium that disseminates moving pictures
  • n. photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies
  • n. a thin coating or layer
  • n. a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things
ECDICT Dictionary Data
Collins Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Oxford 3000
Difficulty: BASIC
Exam Tags: zk gk ielts
Word Forms:
Plural: films
Present Participle: filming
Past Participle: filmed
Past: filmed
3rd Person: films

Word Frequency Rankings

Wikipedia
#168

Formal, encyclopedic, and academic usage

Percentile: 98.3% (Top 98.3% most frequent)
98.3%

Out of 10,000 words in the Wikipedia corpus

TV & Movie Scripts
#1649

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 83.5% (Top 83.5% most frequent)
83.5%

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

Project Gutenberg
#9995

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 0.1% (Top 0.1% most frequent)
0.1%

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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