how to pronounce potato

/pəˈtɛɪˌtoʊ/

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potato is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… look at it potato potato but it was …”

meaning of potato

Potato is a type of vegetable.

potato frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word potato occurs in english on average 27.4 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 potato 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 potato can be often used in the following areas:

1) food and health;

2) life, nature, and living environment;