how to pronounce barleycorn

/ˈbɑːɹliˌkɔːɹn/

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barleycorn is pronounced in three syllables

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ɔː

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An example use of barleycorn in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… you see john barleycorn was more of a …”

meanings of barleycorn

noun:

The length of such a grain; a unit of length of approximately one third (or sometimes one quarter) of an inch or eight millimetres, still used as a basis for shoe sizes.
A grain of barley.
A small groove between two mouldings.

barleycorn frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word barleycorn occurs in english on average 0.1 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 barleycorn 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 barleycorn can be often used in the following areas:

1) food and health;

2) life, nature, and living environment;