waist

Pronunciation: [weist]

Average Rank: 10889

Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICT

n. 腰部, 腰 [医] 腰

Detailed Explanations:
  • n. the narrowing of the body between the ribs and hips
ECDICT Dictionary Data
Collins Rating:
Oxford 3000
Difficulty: BASIC
Exam Tags: gk cet4 cet6 ky toefl

Word Forms:
Plural: waists
Past: waisted

Word Frequency Rankings

TV & Movie Scripts
#8457

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 15.4% (Top 15.4% most frequent)
15.4%

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

Project Gutenberg
#4210

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 57.9% (Top 57.9% most frequent)
57.9%

Out of 10,000 words in the Project Gutenberg corpus

Insights

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