year

Pronunciation: [jiә]

Average Rank: 268

Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICT

n. 年, 年度, 年龄 [经] 年度

Detailed Explanations:
  • n. a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days
  • n. a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity
  • n. the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun
ECDICT Dictionary Data
Collins Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Oxford 3000
Difficulty: BASIC
Exam Tags: zk gk
Word Forms:
Plural: years

Word Frequency Rankings

Wikipedia
#109

Formal, encyclopedic, and academic usage

Percentile: 98.9% (Top 98.9% most frequent)
98.9%

Out of 10,000 words in the Wikipedia corpus

TV & Movie Scripts
#407

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 95.9% (Top 95.9% most frequent)
95.9%

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

Project Gutenberg
#287

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 97.1% (Top 97.1% most frequent)
97.1%

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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