Lemma Details Edit

butterfly (Base Concept)

A flying insect with two pairs of large, often colorful wings and a slender body; undergoes metamorphosis from caterpillar to adult.

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POS Type:
noun
POS Subtype:
animal
GUID:
N02_024
Base Difficulty:
Level 15
Levels for noun (animal): 2: 11 9: 6 15: 12 19: 2 21: 17 24: 16 30: 5
Confidence:
0.00
Frequency and Tier Signals
Combined Frequency Rank: 1353 (weighted harmonic mean of corpus + tier signals; lower = more common)
Lemma Tier Assignments
Source Tier
cambridge_yle Flyers (3 of 3)
cefr A1 (1 of 6)
External Lexeme Annotations (joined)
Source Tier POS hint
cambridge_yle flyers (3 of 3) n
cefr A1 (1 of 6) noun
Lexeme Rollup (new system)
Corpus Total Lexeme Frequency (per million) Best Rank Contributing 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 butterfly
singular
/ˈbʌtəflaɪ/ BOO-tuh-fly base form

Existing pronunciations
English 1 form(s)
Form Grammatical Form IPA Phonetic Base
butterfly singular /ˈbʌtəflaɪ/ BOO-tuh-fly

Grammatical forms
English 1 form(s)
Form Grammatical Form IPA Phonetic Base
butterfly singular /ˈbʌtəflaɪ/ BOO-tuh-fly
Synonyms & Alternative Forms
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Translations
Language Translation Disambiguation Definition Actions
English (en) butterfly - -
Lithuanian (lt) drugelis - -
Chinese (zh) 蝴蝶hú dié - -
Chinese (Taiwan) (zh-tw) Not set - -
French (fr) papillon - -
Spanish (es) mariposa - -
German (de) Schmetterling - -
Italian (it) farfalla - -
Dutch (nl) vlinder - -
Portuguese (pt) borboleta - -
Swedish (sv) fjäril - -
Vietnamese (vi) bướm - -
Japanese (ja) chou - -
Korean (ko) 나비 - -
Swahili (sw) kipepeo - -
Romanian (ro) Not set - -
Polish (pl) Not set - -
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