world

Pronunciation: [wә:ld]

Average Rank: 202

Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICT

n. 世界, 地球, 宇宙, 万物, 世人, 人间, 领域, 世事, 世故, 社会生活, 大量 [法] 世界, 地球, 世人

Detailed Explanations:
  • n. people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest
  • n. all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you
  • n. a part of the earth that can be considered separately
  • n. all of the living human inhabitants of the earth
ECDICT Dictionary Data
Collins Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Oxford 3000
Difficulty: BASIC
Exam Tags: zk gk ielts
Word Forms:
Plural: worlds

Word Frequency Rankings

Wikipedia
#138

Formal, encyclopedic, and academic usage

Percentile: 98.6% (Top 98.6% most frequent)
98.6%

Out of 10,000 words in the Wikipedia corpus

TV & Movie Scripts
#296

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 97.0% (Top 97.0% most frequent)
97.0%

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

Project Gutenberg
#171

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 98.3% (Top 98.3% most frequent)
98.3%

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.

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