how to pronounce railroad

/ˈɹɛɪlˌɹoʊd/

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the above transcription of railroad is a detailed (narrow) transcription according to the rules of the International Phonetic Association; you can find a description of each symbol by clicking the phoneme buttons in the secction below.

railroad is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… police and private railroad police and …”

meaning of railroad

Railroad is a type of railway.

railroad frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word railroad occurs in english on average 6 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 railroad 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 railroad can be often used in the following areas:

1) transport and travel;