how to pronounce beef

/ˈbiːf/

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the above transcription of beef is a detailed (narrow) transcription according to the rules of the International Phonetic Association; you can find a description of each symbol by clicking the phoneme buttons in the secction below.

beef is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of beef in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… as early as 11. the beef bowl is a crowd …”

meaning of beef

Beef is the flesh of cattle.

beef frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word beef occurs in english on average 30.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics beef can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that beef can be often used in the following areas:

1) food and health;