water

Pronunciation: ['wɒ:tә]

Average Rank: 333

Source: ECDICT

n. 水, 雨水, 海水, 水位, 水面, 流水 vt. 给...浇水, 供以水, 注入水, 使湿 vi. 流泪, 流口水, 加水 a. 水的, 水上的, 水生的, 含水的

n. binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
n. once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles)
n. a liquid necessary for the life of most animals and plants
v. supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams

Collins Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Oxford 3000

Difficulty: BASIC

Exam Tags: zk gk ielts

Plural: waters

Past Participle: watered

Present Participle: watering

3rd Person: waters

Past: watered

Word Frequency Rankings

#157

Formal, encyclopedic, and academic usage

Percentile: 98.4% (Top 98.4% most frequent)

98.4%

Out of 10,000 words in the Wikipedia corpus

#604

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 94.0% (Top 94.0% most frequent)

94.0%

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

#238

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 97.6% (Top 97.6% most frequent)

97.6%

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.