how to pronounce island

/ˈaɪlənd/

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island is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… just on an island and live on an island …”

meaning of island

An island is a piece of land surrounded by water.

island frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word island occurs in english on average 73.6 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 island 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 island can be often used in the following areas:

1) transport and travel;