how to pronounce heard

/ˈhɝd/

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heard is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… which you might have heard of which is a …”

meanings of heard

verb:

Simple past tense and past participle of hear.

adjective:

That has been heard or listened to; that has been aurally detected.

name:

A surname.

heard frequency in english - A1 level of CEFR

the word heard occurs in english on average 205 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) people, society, and culture;