how to pronounce tour

/ˈtʊɹ/

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tour is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… even went on to tour Europe by the end …”

meaning of tour

Tour is a journey or trip.

tour frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word tour occurs in english on average 66.1 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 tour 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 tour can be often used in the following areas:

1) leisure and entertainment;

2) transport and travel;