how to pronounce garlic

/ˈɡɑːɹlɪk/

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the above transcription of garlic 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.

garlic is pronounced in two syllables

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ɑː

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

“… with olive oil and garlic I can't take …”

meaning of garlic

Garlic is a type of plant.

garlic frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word garlic occurs in english on average 48.8 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 garlic 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 garlic can be often used in the following areas:

1) food and health;