Definition: 'At'

Statistics

• Length: 2 characters
• Syllables: 1

Results for word: at

• Preposition
• Usually followed by a gerund rather than an infinitive
• Prepositions connect words together
• If a preposition isn't connecting words but modifying one word, as in many phrasal verbs, it can be called a Particle (or an Adverb)

• One of the 220 words in the Dolch high frequency list
• 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