whispering

Pronunciation: ['(h)wispәriŋ]

Average Rank: 15167

Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICT

n. 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
#5502

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 45.0% (Top 45.0% most frequent)
45.0%

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