person

Pronunciation: ['pә:sn]

Average Rank: 373

Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICT

n. 人, 人身, 人称 [法] 人, 法人, 人身

Detailed Explanations:
  • n. a human being
  • n. a human body (usually including the clothing)
  • n. a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party
ECDICT Dictionary Data
Collins Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Oxford 3000
Difficulty: BASIC
Exam Tags: zk gk ielts
Word Forms:
Plural: persons

Word Frequency Rankings

Wikipedia
#435

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
#369

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 96.3% (Top 96.3% most frequent)
96.3%

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

Project Gutenberg
#315

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 96.9% (Top 96.9% most frequent)
96.9%

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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