how to pronounce roads

/ˈɹoʊdz/

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roads is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… yeah all roads or maybe a lot of the …”

meanings of roads

noun:

Plural of road.
A roadstead.

roads frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word roads occurs in english on average 25 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 roads 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 roads can be often used in the following areas:

1) transport and travel;