how to pronounce orchard

/ˈɔːɹtʃɚd/

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orchard is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… the crust or the apple orchard or the …”

meanings of orchard

noun:

A garden or an area of land for the cultivation of fruit or nut trees.
The trees themselves cultivated in such an area.

name:

A surname.

orchard frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word orchard occurs in english on average 4.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) leisure and entertainment;