how to pronounce nut

/nʌt/

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nut is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… it was a tough nut to swallow at that …”

meaning of nut

A nut is a hard, round, dry fruit with a hard shell.

nut frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word nut 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 nut 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 nut can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;