how to pronounce forest

/ˈfɔːɹəst/

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the above transcription of forest 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.

forest is pronounced in two syllables

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ɔː

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

“… sort of lost the forest for the trees …”

meaning of forest

Forest is a large area of land covered with trees.

forest frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word forest occurs in english on average 39.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) life, nature, and living environment;