left

Pronunciation: [left]

Average Rank: 203

Source: ECDICT

a. 左边的, 左倾的, 左侧的, 左派的 adv. 在左面 n. 左, 左面, 左派 leave的过去式和过去分词

n. location near or direction toward the left side; i.e. the side to the north when a person or object faces east
n. those who support varying degrees of social or political or economic change designed to promote the public welfare
n. the hand that is on the left side of the body
n. a turn toward the side of the body that is on the north when the person is facing east

Collins Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Oxford 3000

Difficulty: BASIC

Exam Tags: zk gk

0: leave

1: dp

Past Participle: left

Past: left

Word Frequency Rankings

#174

Formal, encyclopedic, and academic usage

Percentile: 98.3% (Top 98.3% most frequent)

98.3%

Out of 10,000 words in the Wikipedia corpus

#269

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 97.3% (Top 97.3% most frequent)

97.3%

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

#167

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 98.3% (Top 98.3% most frequent)

98.3%

Out of 10,000 words in the Project Gutenberg corpus

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.