Definition: 'Allow'

Statistics

• Length: 5 characters
• Syllables: 2

Grammatical Information

• Transitive Verb
• A verb describes an action or a state

Usage Notes

• ALLOW someone TO DO something
• LET someone DO something

Lexical Information

• In the top 2,000 words in the Brown Corpus
• This is a core verb in the BLC (Business Letter Corpus)
• Common word- this is one of the thousand words most frequently used in English.
• One of the 100 commonest verbs in English
• This is used in the Southern States of America
• A list of about 3,000 words defined as easy for the Dale-Chall Readability Formula