how to pronounce nuts

/ˈnʌts/

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nuts is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… so good at it it's nuts see we have that …”

meanings of nuts

noun:

  1. Initialism of Nomenclature des unités territoriales statistiques: (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics or Nomenclature of Units for Territorial Statistics - an EU classification system of geographical administrative areas for statistical purposes).
  2. Plural of nut.
  3. An unbeatable hand; the best poker hand available.
  4. Testicles.

adjective:

  1. Very fond of (on) someone.
  2. Insane, mad.
  3. Crazy, mad; unusually pleased or, alternatively, angered.

interjection:

  1. Signifies rejection of a proposal or idea, as in forget it, no way, or nothing doing; often followed by to.
  2. Indicates annoyance, anger, or disappointment.

verb:

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nut.

nuts frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word nuts occurs in english on average 30 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) business and work;

2) education, science, and technology;

words with pronunciation similar to nuts

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