whispering
Pronunciation: ['(h)wispәriŋ]
Average Rank: 15167
Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICTn. 低语, 私语, 耳语, 流言, 谣言, 沙沙声, 飒飒声 a. 传播流言蜚语的
Detailed Explanations:
- n a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind
- n speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords
- v speak softly; in a low voice
- s making a low continuous indistinct sound
ECDICT Dictionary Data
Difficulty:
UNKNOWN
Word Forms:
0:
whisper
1:
i
Plural:
whisperings
Present Participle:
whispering
Word Frequency Rankings
TV & Movie Scripts
#5502Conversational and colloquial usage
Percentile: 45.0%
(Top 45.0% most frequent)
Out of 10,000 words in the TV & Movie Scripts corpus