banana (Base Concept)
A long curved yellow fruit with soft sweet flesh and a peel, eaten raw or used in cooking.
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:
- food
- GUID:
-
N06_016 - Base Difficulty:
-
Level 1
Levels for noun (food): 1: 11 9: 4 11: 60 21: 10 27: 5 30: 1 31: 4 - Confidence:
- 0.00
Tier Signals
| Source | Tier | Rank used |
|---|---|---|
cambridge_yle |
Starters (1 of 3) | 325 |
cefr |
A1 (1 of 6) | 800 |
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 |
165.21 | 822 | 1 |
wiki_vital |
0.00 | — | 0 |
Lemma/base pronunciations
| Language | Lemma/Base Form | IPA | Phonetic | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English |
banana
singular |
/bəˈnænə/ | buh-NAN-uh | base form |
Existing pronunciations
English 1 form(s)
| Form | Grammatical Form | IPA | Phonetic | Base |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| banana | singular |
/bəˈnænə/ | buh-NAN-uh |
Grammatical forms
English 1 form(s)
| Form | Grammatical Form | IPA | Phonetic | Base |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| banana | singular |
/bəˈnænə/ | buh-NAN-uh |
- Alternative Forms: Different ways to write or say the same word (e.g., "TV" ↔ "television", "gray" ↔ "grey", "thousand" ↔ "one thousand")
- Synonyms: Different words with similar meanings (e.g., "street" ↔ "road", "mad" ↔ "angry", "big" ↔ "large")
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| Language | Translation | Disambiguation | Definition | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English (en) | banana | - | - | |
| Lithuanian (lt) | bananas | - | - | |
| Chinese (zh) | - | - | ||
| Chinese (Taiwan) (zh-tw) | Not set | - | - | |
| French (fr) | banane | - | - | |
| Spanish (es) | plátano | - | - | |
| German (de) | Banane | - | - | |
| Italian (it) | banana | - | - | |
| Dutch (nl) | banaan | - | - | |
| Portuguese (pt) | banana | - | - | |
| Swedish (sv) | banan | - | - | |
| Vietnamese (vi) | chuối | - | - | |
| Japanese (ja) | バナナ | - | - | |
| Korean (ko) | 바나나 | - | - | |
| 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) | ndizi | - | - | |
| 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 | - | - | |
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| Sinhala (si) | Not set | - | - | |
| Ukrainian (uk) | Not set | - | - | |
| Bengali (bn) | Not set | - | - | |
| Hausa (ha) | Not set | - | - | |
| Yoruba (yo) | Not set | - | - | |
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| Zulu (zu) | Not set | - | - | |
| Oromo (om) | Not set | - | - | |
| Somali (so) | Not set | - | - | |
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| 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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