Lemma Details Edit

scissors (Base Concept)

a cutting instrument with two blades joined by a pivot

Base concept label/definition from base.json input (not necessarily English). See Translations below for the English translation/definition and other language-specific text.

POS Type:
noun
POS Subtype:
tool
GUID:
N12_054
Base Difficulty:
Level 30
Levels for noun (tool): 19: 10 23: 8 27: 1 30: 9 31: 1
Confidence:
0.00
Frequency and Tier Signals
Combined Frequency Rank: 1008 (weighted harmonic mean of corpus + tier signals; lower = more common)
Tier Signals
Source Tier Rank used
basic_english Basic (1 of 2) 600
cambridge_yle Flyers (3 of 3) 1200
cefr A2 (2 of 6) 2100

Rank used = synthetic rank this tier contributes to the combined frequency rank (lower = more common).

Corpus Frequency
Corpus Freq (per M) Best rank Forms
19th_books 0.00 0
20th_books 0.00 0
cooking 0.00 0
wiki_vital 0.00 0
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Grammatical Forms & Pronunciations
Lemma/base pronunciations
Language Lemma/Base Form IPA Phonetic Source
English scissors
singular
/ˈsɪzərz/ SIZ-ərz base form

Existing pronunciations
English 1 form(s)
Form Grammatical Form IPA Phonetic Base
scissors singular /ˈsɪzərz/ SIZ-ərz

Grammatical forms
English 1 form(s)
Form Grammatical Form IPA Phonetic Base
scissors singular /ˈsɪzərz/ SIZ-ərz
Synonyms & Alternative Forms
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Translations
Language Translation Disambiguation Definition Actions
English (en) scissors - -
Lithuanian (lt) žirklės - -
Chinese (zh) 剪刀jiǎn dāo - -
Chinese (Taiwan) (zh-tw) Not set - -
French (fr) ciseaux - -
Spanish (es) tijeras - -
German (de) Schere - -
Italian (it) forbici - -
Dutch (nl) schaar - -
Portuguese (pt) tesoura - -
Swedish (sv) sax - -
Vietnamese (vi) kéo - -
Japanese (ja) はさみhasami - -
Korean (ko) 가위 - -
Latin (la) Not set - -
Sanskrit (sa) Not set - -
Ancient Greek (grc) Not set - -
Classical Arabic (pre-1200) (ar-classical) Not set - -
Old Norse (non) Not set - -
Swahili (sw) mkasi - -
Romanian (ro) Not set - -
Polish (pl) Not set - -
Thai (th) Not set - -
Malay (ms) Not set - -
Burmese (my) Not set - -
Khmer (km) Not set - -
Lao (lo) Not set - -
Filipino (tl) Not set - -
Tamil (ta) Not set - -
Telugu (te) Not set - -
Kannada (kn) Not set - -
Malayalam (ml) Not set - -
Sinhala (si) Not set - -
Ukrainian (uk) Not set - -
Bengali (bn) Not set - -
Hausa (ha) Not set - -
Yoruba (yo) Not set - -
Igbo (ig) Not set - -
Amharic (am) Not set - -
Zulu (zu) Not set - -
Oromo (om) Not set - -
Somali (so) Not set - -
Xhosa (xh) Not set - -
Shona (sn) Not set - -
Hindi (hi) Not set - -
Punjabi (pa) Not set - -
Pashto (ps) Not set - -
Persian (fa) Not set - -
Georgian (ka) Not set - -
Armenian (hy) Not set - -
Azerbaijani (az) Not set - -
Turkish (tr) Not set - -
Bulgarian (bg) Not set - -
Czech (cs) Not set - -
Greek (el) Not set - -
Estonian (et) Not set - -
Finnish (fi) Not set - -
Irish (ga) Not set - -
Hungarian (hu) Not set - -
Latvian (lv) Not set - -
Maltese (mt) Not set - -
Slovak (sk) Not set - -
Slovenian (sl) Not set - -
Bosnian (bs) Not set - -
Serbian (sr) Not set - -
Croatian (hr) Not set - -
Macedonian (mk) Not set - -
Albanian (sq) Not set - -
Montenegrin (me) Not set - -
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