how to pronounce flood

/ˈflʌd/

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flood is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… wall and a flood of water rushed out and …”

meaning of flood

Flood means a large body of water that rises suddenly and threatens to overflow its banks.

flood frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word flood occurs in english on average 14 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics flood 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 flood can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;