how to pronounce pebble

/ˈpɛbəl/

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pebble is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… of a pebble on the ice you can see that …”

meanings of pebble

noun:

Transparent and colourless rock crystal.
A particle from 4 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
A small droplet of water intentionally sprayed on the ice that cause irregularities on the surface.
A form of slow-burning gunpowder in large cubical grains.
A small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water.

verb:

To deposit water droplets on the ice.
To give (leather) a rough appearance with small rounded prominences.
To place a pebble at (a vertex of a graph) according to certain rules; see pebble game.
To pave with pebbles.

pebble frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word pebble occurs in english on average 1.7 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 pebble 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 pebble can be often used in the following areas:

1) food and health;

2) life, nature, and living environment;