school

Pronunciation: [sku:l]

Average Rank: 475

Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICT

n. 学校, 鱼群, 门派, 学派 vt. 教育, 训练, 培养 vi. 成群地游

Detailed Explanations:
  • n. an educational institution
  • n. a building where young people receive education
  • n. the process of being formally educated at a school
  • n. a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers
ECDICT Dictionary Data
Collins Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Oxford 3000
Difficulty: BASIC
Exam Tags: zk gk ielts gre
Word Forms:
Plural: schools
Present Participle: schooling
Past Participle: schooled
Past: schooled
3rd Person: schools

Word Frequency Rankings

Wikipedia
#357

Formal, encyclopedic, and academic usage

Percentile: 96.4% (Top 96.4% most frequent)
96.4%

Out of 10,000 words in the Wikipedia corpus

TV & Movie Scripts
#351

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 96.5% (Top 96.5% most frequent)
96.5%

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

Project Gutenberg
#716

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 92.8% (Top 92.8% most frequent)
92.8%

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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