wreck

Pronunciation: [rek]

Average Rank: 9323

Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICT

n. 失事, 残骸, 破坏 vt. 使失事, 拆毁, 破坏 vi. (船)失事, 营救失事船只

Detailed Explanations:
  • n. something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation
  • n. a ship that has been destroyed at sea
ECDICT Dictionary Data
Collins Rating: ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE
Exam Tags: cet4 cet6 ky toefl ielts
Word Forms:
Past Participle: wrecked
Past: wrecked
Plural: wrecks
Present Participle: wrecking
3rd Person: wrecks

Word Frequency Rankings

TV & Movie Scripts
#3006

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 69.9% (Top 69.9% most frequent)
69.9%

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

Project Gutenberg
#4963

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 50.4% (Top 50.4% most frequent)
50.4%

Out of 10,000 words in the Project Gutenberg corpus

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This word appears in 2 corpus/corpora, showing its usage across different contexts.

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