how to pronounce smell

/ˈsmɛl/

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smell is pronounced in one syllable

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video examples of smell pronunciation

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

“… evolved this trait to smell worse to …”

meaning of smell

Smell is the act of perceiving the presence of a substance by its odor.

smell frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word smell occurs in english on average 54.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) food and health;

2) life, nature, and living environment;