how to pronounce spud

/ˈspʌd/

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spud is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… step one to a clean spud is to wash and …”

meaning of spud

Spud is a type of potato.

spud frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word spud occurs in english on average 0.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) business and work;