wail

Pronunciation: [weil]

Average Rank: 16158

Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICT

n. 恸哭, 哀号, 嚎啕, 呼啸(声) vi. 恸哭, 呼啸, 悲叹, 哀号, 嚎啕

Detailed Explanations:
  • v. cry weakly or softly
ECDICT Dictionary Data
Collins Rating:
Difficulty: ADVANCED
Exam Tags: toefl ielts gre

Word Forms:
Past: wailed
Present Participle: wailing
Plural: wails
3rd Person: wails
Past Participle: wailed

Word Frequency Rankings

Project Gutenberg
#8473

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 15.3% (Top 15.3% most frequent)
15.3%

Out of 10,000 words in the Project Gutenberg corpus