villain

Pronunciation: ['vilәn]

Average Rank: 11879

Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICT

n. 坏人, 恶棍 [法] 歹徒, 恶棍, 恶徒

Detailed Explanations:
  • n. a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately
  • n. the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction
ECDICT Dictionary Data
Collins Rating:
Difficulty: ADVANCED

Word Forms:
Plural: villains

Word Frequency Rankings

TV & Movie Scripts
#9754

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 2.5% (Top 2.5% most frequent)
2.5%

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

Project Gutenberg
#5882

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 41.2% (Top 41.2% most frequent)
41.2%

Out of 10,000 words in the Project Gutenberg corpus

Insights

This word appears in 2 corpus/corpora, showing its usage across different contexts.