whirlwind
Pronunciation: ['hwә:lwind]
Average Rank: 16640
Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICTn. 旋风
Detailed Explanations:
- n. a more or less vertical column of air whirling around itself as it moves over the surface of the Earth
ECDICT Dictionary Data
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Difficulty:
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Word Forms:
Plural:
whirlwinds
Word Frequency Rankings
Project Gutenberg
#9920Classical and literary usage
Percentile: 0.8%
(Top 0.8% most frequent)
Out of 10,000 words in the Project Gutenberg corpus