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Pronunciation: [leit]

Average Rank: 396

Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICT

a. 迟的, 晚的, 已故的 adv. 很晚, 很迟, 晚

Detailed Explanations:
  • a. being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time
  • s. of the immediate past or just previous to the present time
  • s. having died recently
  • a. of a later stage in the development of a language or literature; used especially of dead languages
ECDICT Dictionary Data
Collins Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Oxford 3000
Difficulty: BASIC
Exam Tags: zk gk
Word Forms:
Comparative: later
Superlative: latest

Word Frequency Rankings

Wikipedia
#268

Formal, encyclopedic, and academic usage

Percentile: 97.3% (Top 97.3% most frequent)
97.3%

Out of 10,000 words in the Wikipedia corpus

TV & Movie Scripts
#399

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 96.0% (Top 96.0% most frequent)
96.0%

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

Project Gutenberg
#522

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 94.8% (Top 94.8% most frequent)
94.8%

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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