Definition: 'Ask'

Statistics

• Length: 3 characters
• Syllables: 1

Grammatical Information

• A verb describes an action or a state

Lexical Information

• One of the 220 words in the Dolch high frequency list
• 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
• One of the 100 most often mispronounced words and phrases in English
• Term used in the stock market
• Term used in investment
• A list of about 3,000 words defined as easy for the Dale-Chall Readability Formula