how to pronounce dirt

/ˈdɝt/

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dirt is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… collective defensive dirt and all of our …”

meaning of dirt

Dirt is a type of soil that is loose and crumbly.

dirt frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word dirt occurs in english on average 23 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 dirt 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 dirt can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;