how to pronounce school

/ˈskul/

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the above transcription of school 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.

school is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… you can go to law school if you want to …”

meaning of school

School is a place where children go to learn.

school frequency in english - A1 level of CEFR

the word school occurs in english on average 466.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) education, science, and technology;