surface

Pronunciation: ['sә:fis]

Average Rank: 1793

Source: ECDICT

n. 面, 表面, 水面, 外表, 平面 a. 表面的, 外观的, 肤浅的, 水面上的 vt. 使成平面, 使浮出水面 vi. 浮出水面, 呈现, 在地面上工作

n. the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary
n. the extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object
n. the outermost level of the land or sea
n. a superficial aspect as opposed to the real nature of something

Collins Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Oxford 3000

Difficulty: BASIC

Exam Tags: zk gk toefl ielts

Plural: surfaces

Past: surfaced

Past Participle: surfaced

Present Participle: surfacing

3rd Person: surfaces

Word Frequency Rankings

#412

Formal, encyclopedic, and academic usage

Percentile: 95.9% (Top 95.9% most frequent)

95.9%

Out of 10,000 words in the Wikipedia corpus

#3702

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 63.0% (Top 63.0% most frequent)

63.0%

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

#1266

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 87.3% (Top 87.3% most frequent)

87.3%

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.