how to pronounce basil

/ˈbæz.əl/

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basil is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… turned to his friend basil o'connor to …”

meaning of basil

Basil is a type of plant.

basil frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word basil occurs in english on average 8 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) business and work;