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軽い is an exact match with one form of the following word:
軽い
BOOST
Readings : かるい    かろい   
軽い can be read in 2 ways: かるい (almost always used), かろい (rare).
1. light (i.e. not heavy); feeling light (i.e. offering little resistance, moving easily)  (opposite: 重い)
2. light (i.e. of foot); nimble; agile
3. non-serious; minor; unimportant; trivial
4. slight; small; gentle; soft  (often as 軽く)
5. easy; simple
6. indiscriminate  (see also: 口が軽い)
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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 160,523 which gives a rank of 454
軽い 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: 8,000 (about 102,000,000 results)
• This form appears in Wikipedia's list of JLPT N5 vocabulary (see JLPT collections)
• iknow! Core 6000 rank: 124 (see iKnow! collections)
• Wikipedia most common 20000 words rank: 5053
• 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 34 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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Example sentences:
ゆう
から
かる
ずつう
頭痛
つづ
いている

I have had a slight headache since last night.
わたし
いま
かる
ずつう
頭痛
する
I have a slight headache now.
かれ
かる
ない
ほういい
You'd better not make light of him.
かるい
BOOST
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Usefulness and usage:
• This form is rarely used
• Google Japan frequency rank: 96,000 (about 2,100,000 results)
• 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 34 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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ケイ   かる light   かろやか graceful   
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シャ   くるま car   
ground again
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ド   ト   ground; earth   つち ground, earth, soil   
また again   
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