how to pronounce clay

/ˈklɛɪ/

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clay is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… attached a ball of modeling clay or …”

meaning of clay

Clay is a type of soil or sedimentary rock.

clay frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word clay occurs in english on average 18.7 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 clay 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 clay can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;