how to pronounce gut

/ˈɡʌt/

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gut is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… I'll have this like gut feeling where …”

meanings of gut

noun:

The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged.
A class that is not demanding or challenging.
The sac of silk taken from a silkworm when ready to spin its cocoon, for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. When dry, it is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fishing line.
A narrow passage of water.
Initialism of grand unification theory.
The alimentary canal, especially the intestine.
A person's emotional, visceral self.
The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc.

verb:

To remove or destroy the most important parts of.
To eviscerate.

adjective:

Made of gut.
Instinctive.

name:

A surname.

gut frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word gut occurs in english on average 10.7 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 gut 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 gut can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;