which

Pronunciation: [hwitʃ]

Average Rank: 105

Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICT

pron. 哪一个, 那一个

Detailed Explanations:
  • a. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • a. A interrogative pronoun, used both substantively and
  • adjectively, and in direct and indirect questions, to ask for, or refer
  • to, an individual person or thing among several of a class; as, which
  • man is it? which woman was it? which is the house? he asked which route
  • he should take; which is best, to live or to die? See the Note under
  • What, pron., 1.
  • pron. A relative pronoun, used esp. in referring to an
  • antecedent noun or clause, but sometimes with reference to what is
  • specified or implied in a sentence, or to a following noun or clause
  • (generally involving a reference, however, to something which has
  • preceded). It is used in all numbers and genders, and was formerly used
  • of persons.
  • pron. A compound relative or indefinite pronoun, standing for
  • any one which, whichever, that which, those which, the . . . which, and
  • the like; as, take which you will.
ECDICT Dictionary Data
Collins Rating:
Oxford 3000
Difficulty: BASIC
Exam Tags: zk gk

Word Frequency Rankings

Wikipedia
#25

Formal, encyclopedic, and academic usage

Percentile: 99.8% (Top 99.8% most frequent)
99.8%

Out of 10,000 words in the Wikipedia corpus

TV & Movie Scripts
#265

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 97.4% (Top 97.4% most frequent)
97.4%

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

Project Gutenberg
#24

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 99.8% (Top 99.8% most frequent)
99.8%

Out of 10,000 words in the Project Gutenberg corpus

Insights

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.