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寒い is an exact match with one form of the following word:
寒い
BOOST
Readings : さむい    さぶい   
寒い can be read in 2 ways: さむい (80%), さぶい (20%).
1. cold (e.g. weather)  (opposite: 暑い)
2. uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull; weak; corny  (see also: お寒い)
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Usefulness and usage:
Kanshudo usefulness level: 2 (among the 1,500 most useful words in Japanese)
• Kanshudo usefulness level is based on a usefulness score of 148,993 which gives a rank of 1,203
寒い is the most useful form. 1 additional form is shown below.
This word is a member of our collection of the 10,000 most useful words in Japanese:
• This form is almost always used
• Google Japan frequency rank: 12,000 (about 60,100,000 results)
• This form appears in Wikipedia's list of JLPT N5 vocabulary (see JLPT collections)
• iknow! Core 6000 rank: 339 (see iKnow! collections)
• Wikipedia most common 20000 words rank: 9433
• This form appears in the 1998 'Ichimango goi bunruishuu' frequent word list by Senmon Kyouiku
• This form appears in the 24,000 words in the Mainichi Shimbun frequency analysis by Alexandre Girardi
• This form is in band 40 in the EDICT word frequency file (bands go from 1-48, where 1 is most common - each contains about 500 words)
• This form is used as an example of an official Joyo kanji reading
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Example sentences:
せんげつ
先月
ひじょう
非常
さむ
かった

It was very cold last month.
とつぜん
突然
さむ
なった
It has suddenly got cold, hasn't it?
さむ
くて
かん
まるでない
My hands are numb from the cold.
さむい
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Usefulness and usage:
• This form is rarely used
• Google Japan frequency rank: 87,000 (about 2,710,000 results)
• Wikipedia most common 20000 words rank: 13086
• One of the 1240 words included in the Genki textbooks
• This form appears in the 1998 'Ichimango goi bunruishuu' frequent word list by Senmon Kyouiku
• This form appears in the 24,000 words in the Mainichi Shimbun frequency analysis by Alexandre Girardi
• This form is in band 40 in the EDICT word frequency file (bands go from 1-48, where 1 is most common - each contains about 500 words)
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カン   さむ cold   
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キョウ   とも together   
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grass   
イチ   イツ   ひと    ひと- one   
katakana 'ha'; eight
roof   
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