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通る is an exact match with one form of the following word:
通る
BOOST
Reading : とおる   
'ru' godan verb, intransitive verb
1. to go by; to go past; to go along; to travel along; to pass through; to use (a road); to take (a route); to go via; to go by way of
2. to run (between); to operate (between); to connect  (of public transport)
3. to go indoors; to go into a room; to be admitted; to be shown in; to be ushered in; to come in
4. to penetrate; to pierce; to skewer; to go through; to come through
5. to permeate; to soak into; to spread throughout
6. to carry (e.g. of a voice); to reach far
7. to be passed on (e.g. of a customer's order to the kitchen); to be relayed; to be conveyed
8. to pass (a test, a bill in the House, etc.); to be approved; to be accepted
9. to go by (a name); to be known as; to be accepted as; to have a reputation for
10. to be coherent; to be logical; to be reasonable; to be comprehensible; to be understandable; to make sense
11. to get across (e.g. of one's point); to be understood
12. to be straight (e.g. wood grain)
13. to be well-informed; to be wise  (archaic)
14. to do ... completely; to do ... thoroughly  (after the -masu stem of a verb)
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Usefulness and usage:
Kanshudo usefulness level: 1 (among the 500 most useful words in Japanese)
• Kanshudo usefulness level is based on a usefulness score of 165,242 which gives a rank of 237
通る is the most useful form. 3 additional forms are shown below.
This word is a member of our collection of the 10,000 most useful words in Japanese:
• This form is used about 40% of the time
• Google Japan frequency rank: 23,000 (about 27,600,000 results)
• This form appears in Wikipedia's list of JLPT N4 vocabulary (see JLPT collections)
• iknow! Core 6000 rank: 912 (see iKnow! collections)
• Wikipedia most common 20000 words rank: 2022
• 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 14 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:
どちら
みち
とお
って
って
いいです
You can take either road.
おとうと
しょうがっこう
小学校
とお
っています

My little brother goes to an elementary school.
おとうと
わたし
おな
がっこう
学校
とお
っている

My brother goes to the same school I do.
とおる
BOOST
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Usefulness and usage:
• This form is used about 10% of the time
• Google Japan frequency rank: 71,000 (about 4,480,000 results)
• Wikipedia most common 20000 words rank: 17654
• 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 14 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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透る
BOOST
Reading : とおる   
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Usefulness and usage:
• This form is used about 30% of the time
• Google Japan frequency rank: 33,000 (about 17,500,000 results)
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徹る
BOOST
Reading : とおる   
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Usefulness and usage:
• This form is used about 20% of the time
• Google Japan frequency rank: 38,000 (about 14,600,000 results)
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ツ   ツウ   とお to pass through   とお to let pass   かよ to commute   
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use your ma
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ヨウ   もちいる to use   
katakana 'ma'
move
トウ   transparent   す    すける to be transparent   すかす to look through   
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シュウ    excellent   ひいでる to surpass   
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ノ    whereupon; from (kana); splitting away from   
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three
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katakana 'no'; whereupon; splitting away from
grain
テツ    to go through, to pierce   
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step
イク   そだ to grow up   そだてる    はぐく to raise, to rear   
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private lidded
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ム   private
lid
ガツ   ゲツ   つき month; moon   
ぼく strike   
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