how to pronounce swan

/swɑːn/

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the above transcription of swan 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.

swan is pronounced in one syllable

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ɑː

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

“… nineteen as being a Black Swan event and …”

meaning of swan

Swan is a type of bird.

swan frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word swan occurs in english on average 5.1 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 swan 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 swan can be often used in the following areas:

1) leisure and entertainment;