Definition: 'Animal'

Statistics

• Length: 6 characters
• Syllables: 3

Grammatical Information

• Animate Noun
• Names of people, places, organisations, etc begin with a Capital Letter and are called Proper Nouns
• Nouns are words giving names to objects and things, which can be physical or concepts, etc

Lexical Information

• Nouns can be replaced by Pronouns
• One of the 850 words in Basic English
• In the top 2,000 words in the Brown Corpus
• Common word- this is one of the thousand words most frequently used in English.
• A list of about 3,000 words defined as easy for the Dale-Chall Readability Formula