lost

Pronunciation: [lɒst]

Average Rank: 401

Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICT

a. 失去的, 遗失的, 迷惑的 lose的过去式和过去分词

Detailed Explanations:
  • a. no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered
  • a. spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed
  • a. not gained or won
  • s. incapable of being recovered or regained
ECDICT Dictionary Data
Collins Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
Oxford 3000
Difficulty: BASIC
Word Forms:
0: lose
1: dp
Past: lost
Past Participle: lost

Word Frequency Rankings

Wikipedia
#433

Formal, encyclopedic, and academic usage

Percentile: 95.7% (Top 95.7% most frequent)
95.7%

Out of 10,000 words in the Wikipedia corpus

TV & Movie Scripts
#387

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 96.1% (Top 96.1% most frequent)
96.1%

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

Project Gutenberg
#383

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 96.2% (Top 96.2% most frequent)
96.2%

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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